The Mistress of Bow Street
(2026)(The third book in the Rotten Scoundrels series)
A novel by Adele Clee
Lady Charlotte Soanes has spent ten years ensuring no young woman suffers the same fate she did.
Behind the reputation of a notorious widow lies a woman who watches London’s ballrooms for predators, intervening before innocent debutantes can be ruined. But when her private crusade collides with a blackmail investigation, Charlotte finds herself working alongside the one man she never expected to see again.
Marcus Stroud was the boy she loved before her world fell apart. Now he is a Bow Street magistrate, returned to London after a decade away and carrying a secret Charlotte must never discover. Working together means reopening a past they have both failed to bury. Then Charlotte claims they are lovers to explain one compromising encounter. It should be an easy lie. But neither has forgotten what they lost.
Genre: Historical Romance
Behind the reputation of a notorious widow lies a woman who watches London’s ballrooms for predators, intervening before innocent debutantes can be ruined. But when her private crusade collides with a blackmail investigation, Charlotte finds herself working alongside the one man she never expected to see again.
Marcus Stroud was the boy she loved before her world fell apart. Now he is a Bow Street magistrate, returned to London after a decade away and carrying a secret Charlotte must never discover. Working together means reopening a past they have both failed to bury. Then Charlotte claims they are lovers to explain one compromising encounter. It should be an easy lie. But neither has forgotten what they lost.
Genre: Historical Romance