No Longer a Gentleman

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To the Creative Cauldron. How many stories have we knocked out of the ballpark together? A lot!

And to all the great people at Kensington, who take such good care of my books.

Chapter 1

London, January 1813

Time to dance with the devil again. Cassie wielded Kirkland House’s dragon’s head knocker, wondering what mission awaited her this time.

The door opened. Recognizing her, the butler bowed her inside. “His lordship is in his study, Miss Fox.”

“No need to show me the way.” Cassie headed to the rear of the house, thinking that it was about time Kirkland sent her back to France. For years, she had moved secretly between England and France, spying and acting as a courier at Kirkland’s direction. The work was dangerous and grimly satisfying.

Outwardly a frivolous gentleman of leisure, in private Kirkland was a master of intelligence gathering and analysis. He’d kept her in London longer than usual this time as part of a team working desperately to uncover a plot against the royal family. They had succeeded, a wedding and Christmas had been celebrated, and now Cassie was restless. Working to undermine Napoleon’s regime gave her life purpose.

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