A Gift for Guile

VICTORIAN ROMANCEAs the daughter of a notorious criminal-and a former thief herself-Esther Walker-Bales has come to London to right a very old wrong. Nothing will stop her from making amends: not her family's enemies, not old fears, and certainly not the interfering and undeniably gorgeous private investigator, Sir Samuel Brass. Samuel has better things to do than watch over a reckless hellion. He's known Esther for thirteen years, and he hasn't trusted her for a second of it. But duty demands he return her to her family in one piece, even if it means spending day and night with the sharp-tongued beauty who infuriates him almost as much as she tempts him. But just as the two move from a tentative truce to a fledgling romance, a threat from Esther's past emerges to endanger their future. Now Samuel will have to use all his skills as a private investigator, dust off his charm, and maybe employ a bit of guile of his own if he wants to keep Esther safe...and steal her carefully guarded heart.