Rugged and handsome and fleet of foot as a Bow Street Runner, Assistant Magistrate Jackson Pinter feels this mission is the worst he had ever been asked to handle. He just knows it is going to end badly. As a secret admirer of the lovely Lady Celia Sharpe, Jackson was definitely not thrilled to be asked to investigate three potential beaus of hers, so she could pick the right one to be her husband. He already knew their weaknesses and not one of them he felt was good enough for Lady Celia. He would have loved to have married her himself, but he would be damn if he was going to be called a fortune hunter. It was bad enough being a called a bastard! What a fool he was to agree to this task!

Damn Celia's interfering grandmother and her ridiculous ultimatum that all her grandchildren should be wed within the year or she was cutting them out of her not so insignificant fortune. Having been employed by Oliver, the Marquess of Stoneville, to investigate the death of their parents nineteen years earlier, Jackson liked and admired the Sharpe family and was glad that Oliver's siblings, Jarret, Minerva and Gabriel, had all found wonderful partners and had married during the previous year. Now, with a scant two months left to go, Celia is determined not to disappoint her brothers and sisters and would prove to her Grandmother Hetty that she is good looking enough to find a husband. Anxious about the future for her grandchildren, Hetty had made it clear she was not backing down.

As Jackson proceeds with following up on his investigation, he realizes that Celia is in danger and long held secrets come out that make Jackson feel like a fool. How could he live with himself if he couldn't protect her? Could they ever cross the very real barrier between their two worlds?

Well known romance writer Sabrina Jeffries has created a real winner for her fifth and final book in her witty and spirited The Hellions of Halstead Hall Series. While A LADY NEVER SURRENDERS can easily be read as a stand-alone romance, Jeffries serves up a cracking Grande Finale suspense filled romance between Mr. Prim and Proper Pinter and the beautiful Lady Celia, a spunky and crack shot heroine! You won't want to miss what happens to the last of the hellions!