by Alissa Johnson
She's a liar.
She's a con.
She's a thief.
And God help him, but he'll do anything to keep her safe.
Beautiful and conniving, maddening and brilliant, Esther is everything private detective Samuel Brass shouldn't want. Esther knows she's put herself in terrible danger, but nothing will stop her from making amends—not her family's enemies, not old fears, and certainly not the domineering, interfering, and undeniably handsome former officer of the Scotland Yard. Yet whenever he's near, Samuel makes her long for a life that can never be hers…and wish she were worthy of being saved.
Second in an exciting late Victorian romance series from a RITA Award nominee!
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Fun Fact about the Victorian Age
Two of today’s most common Christmas traditions first gained
widespread popularity in the Victorian era. Christmas trees as we know them
today originated in Germany. It was Queen Victoria and her family who brought
the practice to England (and slightly later, America) in the mid 19th
century. So when you find your carpet covered with tinsel and dead pine needles
at the end of every year, you know who to blame. We can also thank the
Victorians for inventing the commercially printed Christmas Card. The first
were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and designed by renowned illustrator John
Calcott Horsley in 1843. Sold for a shilling a piece, they quickly replaced
hand written Christmas greetings.
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