The law is closing in, and he needs an alibi…
Severely injured army officer Jonathan Berry has nothing to live for until he takes charge of a bunch of incompetent thieves clearly heading for the gallows. Unfortunately, greater success brings greater attention, and after a daring raid on Lady Grandison’s country house party, the Bow Street Runners are in hot pursuit.
This bride refuses to be left behind…
Baron Wolf’s estates are mortgaged to the hilt, but he has always muddled along somehow – until his young brother incurs a huge debt of honour that neither of them can pay. A friend introduces Wolf to a rich city merchant who is willing to lend to indigent aristocrats in return for their favour. What he doesn’t realize in time, is that the favour is marriage with the cit’s plain daughter.
Tricked, trapped, and furious, Wolf marries the girl and abandons her the same day while he goes about his life as before. When the new Lady Wolf, with an agenda of her own, simply tracks him down to Lady Grandison’s party, he determines to teach her a lesson.
Only then she vanishes in the company of thieves, and the hunted baron becomes the hunter.
Finding her is not the end, however, for she is injured and can’t even remember her name. Or is she just pretending…?
Sick and injured, Jonathan scatters his men and hides out in a barn where he is discovered by Miss Chloe Barclay. Desperate for adventure, Chloe hides him and nurses him back to health. Her company enchants him, and although he knows she can never be his, he begins to make fresh plans to extricate himself from his nefarious crew.
However, the Law won’t give up and Chloe, hopelessly in love, faces the choice of losing her reputation or letting Jonathan hang.
