Overview

A royal cousin with a reputation. A countess in a cage. And a passion hot enough to melt Victorian England's coldest conventions.

When Lady Isabel Thornton's husband commands her to cultivate Lady Blackwood's friendship for social advantage, he has no idea what he's set in motion.

Lady Sophia Augusta Blackwood, second cousin to King Edmund, renowned markswoman, and London's most dangerous woman, has survived society by playing its games just well enough to avoid marriage. She takes lovers when it suits her and lives by her own rules.

Isabel was supposed to be just another trapped wife seeking intelligent conversation. Instead, she's brilliant, bold, and hungry for everything her marriage has denied her.

And when Sophia kisses her for the first time, Isabel discovers pleasures she never imagined.

What begins as stolen moments becomes something neither woman can control.

But Isabel's husband is building a case.

Society's whispers are growing louder.

And the only path to freedom is the one thing women of their class can never have.

To be together, they'll have to risk scandal, ostracism, and everything they've built.

But some fires burn too hot to be contained.

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