20-year-old Violet Davenport dreams of being a writer, but as a woman in Victorian England, her family has other plans for her future. Tomorrow, she is set to marry Lord Holland of Kingston. She soon learns secrets about her family that send her reeling. She runs away only to be stunned about the amount of crime in the city she calls home. She teams up with a new friend named Peter to solve a murder mystery. But who is this mysterious Peter? What is he hiding from her? Secrets come out, in Runaway Hearts.