About the Book
In Victorian London, if you’re not a blue blood of the Echelon then you’re nothing at all.
The Great Houses rule the city with an iron fist, imposing their strict
‘blood taxes’ on the nation, and the Queen is merely a puppet on a
string...
Lena Todd makes the perfect spy. Nobody suspects the
flirtatious debutante could be a sympathizer for the humanist movement
haunting London’s vicious blue blood elite. Not even the ruthless Will
Carver, the one man she can’t twist around her little finger, and the
one man whose kiss she can’t forget...
Stricken with the loupe and
considered little more than a slave-without-a-collar to the blue bloods, Will wants nothing to do with the Echelon or the dangerous beauty who
drives him to the very edge of control. But when he finds a coded letter on Lena — a code that matches one he saw on a fire-bombing suspect — he
realizes she’s in trouble. To protect her, he must seduce the truth from her.
With the humanists looking to start a war with the Echelon, Lena and Will must race against time — and an automaton army — to stop the
humanist plot before it’s too late. But as they fight to save a city on
the brink of revolution, the greatest danger might just be to their
hearts...
