


However, rescuing the boy puts them all in unexpected danger from both a risky illness and a vicious enemy. To escape the endless line of suitors vying for her hand in marriage she has become involved in the Milliners’ Society for the Education of Indigent Females, which “housed and educated girls determined, against prodigious odds, to be respectable.” Tired of being a society ornament, she finds great pleasure in improving lives, and when one of the society’s protégées asks for help retrieving her brother from a sordid street gang, Clara approaches Oliver Radford, a barrister well-known for his powerful legal mind and his flexible social connections from all walks of life. Lady Clara is the catch of the season, but so far no one has tempted her to be caught. Beautiful heiress Lady Clara Fairfax is getting tired of proposals from men she doesn’t want, so when she meets brilliant, compelling barrister Oliver Radford, she is intrigued, then enthralled as the two attempt to save an urchin and survive the dangerous aftermath of their benevolent alliance.
