Breath taking, tense mystery and drama. Set in England in 1808 at a little run-down Inn, Johanna and her mother (with some help from her little brother) are trying to keep the business afloat and keep up with the payments. Little do they know the danger about to surround them. Alex is a Runner who is undercover, and more or less living a lie as far as Johanna is concerned. But he can’t reveal himself until his job is done. Neither is expecting to fall in love, but each supports the other and they are strengthened in their faith – which is what sees them through. This one is nearly impossible to set down, and I held my breath entirely too much! Although there was more Dickens style darkness to this than I had expected the story was VERY good.
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Description from The Publisher
A London officer goes undercover to expose a plot against the Crown
Dover, England, 1808: Officer Alexander Moore goes undercover as a gambling gentleman to expose a high-stakes plot against the king—and he’s a master of disguise, for Johanna Langley believes him to be quite the rogue. . .until she can no longer fight against his unrelenting charm.
All Johanna wants is to keep the family inn afloat, but when the rent and the hearth payment are due at the same time, where will she find the extra funds? If she doesn’t come up with the money, there will be nowhere to go other than the workhouse—where she’ll be separated from her ailing mother and ten-year-old brother.
Alex desperately wants to help Johanna, especially when she confides in him, but his mission—finding and bringing to justice a traitor to the crown—must come first, or they could all end up dead.
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