" She was, after all, no longer Emily Vale, the peculiar girl who preferred books and frogs to gossip and pretty dresses; whom no one ever listened to; whom no one petted or rhapsodized over, or missed from tea or the picnic or Christmas dinner; whom no one except one boy ever sought out—until he didn’t. She had not been that girl in years. "

― Katharine Ashe , The Earl (Devil's Duke, #2; Falcon Club, #5)