The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian
St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from
persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today
bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....
When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found
brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by
Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. Just
seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding one of
his longtime friends and companions in the kidnapping and murder of a
string of vulnerable street children. But Sebastian was never able to
prove Ashworth's complicity. Nor was he able to prevent his troubled,
headstrong young niece Stephanie from entering into a disastrous
marriage with the dangerous nobleman.
Stephanie has survived the difficult birth of twin sons. But Sebastian
soon discovers that her marriage has quickly degenerated into a sham.
Ashworth abandoned his pregnant bride at his father's Park Street
mansion and has continued living an essentially bachelor existence. And
mounting evidence--ranging from a small bloody handprint to a woman's
silk stocking--suggests that Ashworth's killer was a woman. Sebastian is
tasked with unraveling the shocking nest of secrets surrounding
Ashworth's life to keep Stephanie from being punished for his death.
