Gallery Books
December 2012
On Sale: November 27, 2012
336 pages ISBN: 1451684436 EAN: 9781451684438 Kindle: B007EDOSDG Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Set in early nineteenth-century England, this vivid and romantic historical novel goes from the most elegant ballrooms of London to the cityβs most tawdry slums, as a spirited young woman helps unravel a plot by Napoleon to bleed England of all its gold. Through good fortune, Charlotte Raven escaped the poverty of the London slums and is now an educated, wealthy Society lady. But she lives between two worlds, unable to completely turn her back on her old lifeβspecifically Luke, her childhood protector and now a ruthless London crime lord.
When Lord Edward Durnham is asked to investigate the alarming movement of gold out of England, his search leads him to London, and his recent acquaintance with Charlotte affords him access to a dark world he barely knew existed. As they delve deeper into the underbelly of London, danger lurks at every turn, and Charlotte must navigate between her two worlds to save England. And soon she faces a defining choice: to continue in the familiar limbo sheβs lived in for years, or to take a painful and risky leap toward a happiness she never thought possible.
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