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Welcome back to the Bastion Club, as our next ex-secret hero meets his match in a wild ride of lost love refound, family secrets, spies, murder, and mayhem.
Impatient to find his bride-to-be yet appalled by the demands of the ton, Charles St. Austell leaps at the chance to help his ex-commander Dalziel by investigating rumors of spies operating via smuggling gangs near Charless Cornwall home. The first strange thing Charles discovers is Lady Penelope Selborne, neighbor and ex-lover, marching through his house after midnight. Years ago, Charles and Penny shared one fabulously, passionate interlude, but ever since, shes managed to avoid him. Now Charles uncovers a web of Selborne family secrets and a spy network others are also searching forand trapped in the middle is Penny, the one he had never ceased wanting for his own.
But twist follows twist and nothing is what it seemedCharles has his hands full unraveling the truth about the spying, unmasking an assassin intent on killing all Selbornes, including Penny, while simultaneously convincing that independent lady that she and only she will do for himand he for her.
Welcome back to the Bastion Club, as our next ex-secret hero meets his match in a wild ride of lost love refound, family secrets, spies, murder, and mayhem.
Impatient to find his bride-to-be yet appalled by the demands of the ton, Charles St. Austell leaps at the chance to help his ex-commander Dalziel by investigating rumors of spies operating via smuggling gangs near Charless Cornwall home. The first strange thing Charles discovers is Lady Penelope Selborne, neighbor and ex-lover, marching through his house after midnight. Years ago, Charles and Penny shared one fabulously, passionate interlude, but ever since, shes managed to avoid him. Now Charles uncovers a web of Selborne family secrets and a spy network others are also searching forand trapped in the middle is Penny, the one he had never ceased wanting for his own.
But twist follows twist and nothing is what it seemedCharles has his hands full unraveling the truth about the spying, unmasking an assassin intent on killing all Selbornes, including Penny, while simultaneously convincing that independent lady that she and only she will do for himand he for her.
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