The Duke of Wittaker has been living a lie…
He’s been spying on the dissolute, discontented noblemen of the ton, pretending to share their views. Now he’s ready to step out of the shadows and start living a real life…but when the prime minister of England is assassinated, he’s asked to go back to being the rake-hell duke everyone still believes he is to find out more.
Miss Phoebe Hillier … more.
Miss Phoebe Hillier has been living a lie, too…
All her life she’s played the game, hiding her fierce intelligence and love of life behind a docile and decorous mask. All it’s gotten her is jilted by her betrothed, a man she thought a fool, but a harmless one. But when she discovers her former fiancé was involved in the plot against the prime minister, and that he’s been murdered, she realizes he wasn’t so harmless after all.
And now the killers have set their sights on her…
The only man who can help her is the Duke of Wittaker — a man she knows she shouldn’t trust. And she soon realizes he’s hiding behind a mask as careful as her own. As the assassin steadfastly vows he acted alone, and as the clock ticks down to his trial, the pair scramble to uncover the real conspiracy. And as the pressure and the danger mounts, Phoebe and Wittaker shed their disguises, layer by layer, to discover something more precious than either imagined — something that could last forever. Unless the conspirators desperate to hide their tracks get to them first.
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I wish it had a better ending but it was very well written. I enjoyed the book and couldn’t wait to find out the plot.
Good plot, grerat characters, good action, heartfelt. But too much description of lustful thoughts and actions
This qualifies as historical fiction and is based on real events in the regency period. The writing and character development are excellent. The historical period is presented with accuracy. The romance is sweet, but not the predominate element in this story. I really enjoyed it!
Always like historical books, and this was a good one with some factual info as well as the fiction
AWESOME read. I think I’ll go buy the otters in the series.
The plot was baded on a real event concommitantly with the authors contrived speculation of how it could have happened. The characters were nicely developed, but the plot was forced
Dianappointing, verbose, drawn out unnecessarily
I really appreciated the character development and was pleased at the steam level not being too high!
I enjoyed the storyline and the characters