“I suppose I can’t expect to keep you under lock and key.
You’re hardly a criminal. . .are
you?”
It takes a criminal to catch one, and Nicholas Brentwood is just
the man for the job. Reformed in more ways than one, the
rough-around-the-edges Brentwood is a member of the Bow Street
Runners, London’s early nineteenth-century fledgling police force.
There’s none better than Brentwood at catching the felons who
ravage the city’s streets, and there’s nothing he loves more than
seeing justice served. Beautiful and beguiling, Miss Emily
Payne is not the sort of miscreant Brentwood usually hunts down.
When he is assigned as her bodyguard, he vows to protect her from
her father’s enemies, who will stop at nothing to carry out their
mission fueled by greed and revenge.
All her life, Emily has longed for love, but it remains beyond her
grasp. This season she’s determined to find a husband, which is
quite the undertaking with a hound-dog guardian like Brentwood
watching her every step. If he would just give her some measure of
freedom, she is sure she could win the heart of society’s most
eligible bachelor.
Emily’s headstrong persistence challenges Nicholas in ways he
doesn’t expect but of one thing he’s certain—of all the cunning
criminals he’s dealt with in the past, this time he’s met his
match.