At 17 she ran away with Thomas Evans, a fortune hunter who promptly left her in the country. She was very much in love with her husband, who was killed in a riding accident. His death left her destitute and forced her to move back to Havenwood.
Sophie's brother, John Mercer, is her only living relation, aside from some distanct cousins she's never met.
Her husband's infidelities broke her heart. She never wants to feel like that again.
Not far from Duke's Head on the eastern coast of England and only two miles from the earl of Banallt's seat, Castle Darmaed.