The long-awaited new historical romance from Joanna Bourne—one of the most talked-about and praised historical romance authors in the field.

Sèverine de Cabrillac, orphan of the French revolution and former British intelligence agent, has left spying behind her. Now she devotes herself to investigating crimes in London and finding justice for the unjustly accused.

Raoul de Verney, an enigmatic half-Spaniard, half- Frenchman, comes to her, demanding that she look into the murder of his long-estranged wife and find his wife’s missing fourteen-year-old daughter.

Sèverine has enough on her plate, trying to thwart a plot to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, but she reluctantly agrees to help Raoul. Their search for the girl leads them through a murky tangle of treason, corruption, and murder. But the most dangerous thing they face may be their growing attraction to each other…