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.