Duke of Pleasure (Maiden Lane, #11)

by Elizabeth Hoyt

But whether the Ghost or Alf, what she wasn’t and would never be, at least not in St Giles, was a woman.

Hannah had been taken by the lassie snatchers—a gang that put little girls to work in slave shops, laboring over the making of stockings.

Paternal love didn’t die simply because a boy glared at his father. It merely watched and grieved.