When a female highway robber accidentally shoots a baron, they become enemies by circumstance and allies by necessity, united by one man they both wish to destroy.
Grace Henton wants revenge on the duke whose gin empire corrupted and destroyed her family. To this end, she waits beside the road in Epping Forrest, pistol in hand, but while her intentions are sure, her weapon is not.
When she accidentally shoots the wrong man, she finds herself nursing an injured and furious William Ellsworth back to health. William threatens to expose her, but she has discovered his saddlebags are full of illegal political pamphlets. The resulting bargain is simple: he must escort her to the duke’s house party as his intended, or she will expose him to the establishment he’s been quietly undermining.
What follows is equal parts infiltration, improvisation, and the highly inconvenient discovery that nemeses make surprisingly good allies. As Grace searches the duke’s house for evidence that will destroy their enemy and William tries to keep their cover intact, something considerably more dangerous than a Queen Anne’s pistol sparks between them.
Set in 1759, this is a story about revenge, justice, and two people who discover that the most incendiary thing in Epping Forrest was never a flintlock.
Genre: Historical Romance
Grace Henton wants revenge on the duke whose gin empire corrupted and destroyed her family. To this end, she waits beside the road in Epping Forrest, pistol in hand, but while her intentions are sure, her weapon is not.
When she accidentally shoots the wrong man, she finds herself nursing an injured and furious William Ellsworth back to health. William threatens to expose her, but she has discovered his saddlebags are full of illegal political pamphlets. The resulting bargain is simple: he must escort her to the duke’s house party as his intended, or she will expose him to the establishment he’s been quietly undermining.
What follows is equal parts infiltration, improvisation, and the highly inconvenient discovery that nemeses make surprisingly good allies. As Grace searches the duke’s house for evidence that will destroy their enemy and William tries to keep their cover intact, something considerably more dangerous than a Queen Anne’s pistol sparks between them.
Set in 1759, this is a story about revenge, justice, and two people who discover that the most incendiary thing in Epping Forrest was never a flintlock.
Genre: Historical Romance