Author’s Note

In order to maintain timelines between the first two books in the Rebels of the Ton series, I’ve taken liberties with dates for the thoroughbred breeding season.

The natural season for horses to conceive is roughly April to August. However, the growth of thoroughbred racing has had a tremendous impact on horse breeding cycles and the breeding season has been artificially manipulated to ensure that horses foal as close to January 1st as possible.

In the interest of historical veracity, I’ve chosen to portray the public’s perception of mental illness closer to what it would have been in 1816, rather than what it is today.

Keep in mind that Western society used extreme procedures such as lobotomies—the majority of which were performed on female patients—to treat some forms of mental illness as late as the 1970s and ’80s.

Not until the later part of the twentieth century has society begun to approach mental illness with a degree of humanity.