Another gripping book from Allison  Grey. This book follows on from The Lady Thief of Belgravia and is set about 2 or 3 years later. We first came to know both Violet Latimer and John Barrow in the first book as Dellas friend and Cole's valet, and this was their story.

This was every bit as good as the first book although this book was quite darker and grittier than the first and kept me tensed up thinking, when is this going to go wrong. It can be read as a stand alone although having read both, it certainly enhances the characters having known them from the start. 

The picture painted of the era, the conditions and society at the time is heartbreaking and yet accurate.  Allison Grey has superbly researched Victorian times for these books and I could feel it and taste it through her excellent writing. The reason I spent most of the book on edge was a testament to how vicious she wrote her characters. I was so scared that Violet and John would be found out during one of their liaisons that I had to skip to the end of the chapter to check how it ended before I went back to enjoy it.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book and will be looking out for more from Allison Grey in the future.
Thanks to Netgalley and Storm Publishing for allowing me the chance to read this ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.