Honoria Ardmore has a secret. Four years ago, the notorious pirate Christopher Raine, arrested for stealing the a ship full of gold bound for Napoleon, makes one last request of Honoria. She grants it, and Christopher is taken out to be hanged. Or was he?Honoria couldn’t have seen him come back to life in the rather thick air of Covent Garden one night, could she? Christopher is long dead and gone, Honoria’s secret with him. Her life has moved on, and now she’s betrothed to a respectable Englishman.

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