Get steeped in suspense, romance, and high Victorian intrigue as Mary
goes undercover at Buckingham Palace -- and learns a startling secret at
the Tower of London.
Queen Victoria has a little problem: there's a petty thief at work in
Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency puts quickwitted
Mary Quinn on the case, where she must pose as a domestic while fending
off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales. But when the prince
witnesses the murder of one of his friends in an opium den, the
potential for scandal looms large. And Mary faces an even more
unsettling possibility: the accused killer, a Chinese sailor imprisoned
in the Tower of London, shares a name with her long-lost father.
Meanwhile, engineer James Easton, Mary's onetime paramour, is at work
shoring up the sewers beneath the palace, where an unexpected tunnel
seems to be very much in use. Can Mary and James trust each other (and
put their simmering feelings aside) long enough to solve the mystery and
protect the Royal Family? Hoist on your waders for Mary's most personal
case yet, where the stakes couldn't be higher -- and she has everything
to lose.