He’s been spying on the dissolute, discontented noblemen of
the ton, pretending to share their views. Now he’s ready to
step out of the shadows and start living a real life...but
when the prime minister of England is assassinated, he's
asked to go back to being the rake-hell duke everyone
believes he still is to find out more.
Miss Phoebe Hillier has been living a lie, too...
All her life she's played by society's rules, hiding her
fierce intelligence and love of life behind a docile and
decorous mask. All it's gotten her is jilted by her
betrothed, a man she thought a fool, though a harmless one.
But when she discovers her former fiancé was involved in the
plot against the prime minister, and that he's been
murdered, she realizes he wasn't so harmless after all.
And now the killers have set their sights on her...
The only man who can help her is the Duke of Wittaker--a man
she knows she shouldn't trust. And she soon realizes he's
hiding behind a mask as careful as her own. As the clock
ticks down to the assassin's trial, the pair scramble to
uncover the real conspiracy behind the prime minister's
death. And as the pressure and the danger mounts, Phoebe and
Wittaker shed their disguises, layer by layer, to discover
something more precious than either imagined–something that
could last forever. Unless the conspirators desperate to
hide their tracks get to them first.
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