Résultats pour "The Raven" dans Victorien

Meet Raven—the second of four gentlemen who work to right injustices—in the new heart-stopping series Gentlemen of the Order. Finlay Cole deserves the moniker Raven. Bad luck and ill omens are his constant companions. Still crippled with guilt over his wife’s death, he works as an enquiry agent to distract him from the pain of the past. But his nightmares return when he discovers his next client is his first love—a woman who still holds a piece of his heart.

Penniless, shunned, and marked forever by her mother's descent into madness, Lucy makes a desperate choice. She slips uninvited into London's most lavish masquerade ball, to secure the one thing she can't live without Marriage. When a masked stranger sends her heart racing, he draws Lucy into a dangerous dance that ends in public ruin and a forced marriage neither can escape. When the masks come off, the man who broke her heart years ago stands before her.

London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels, and coffeehouses to the hell of a debtors' prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and disease. And those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol's rutheless governor and his cronies.