A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock, #2)

by Sherry Thomas

She had averted disaster because of whom she knew before her fall from grace—and not because life had turned out to be fundamentally gentler than she had supposed.

She bit down on another slice of pound cake, her appetite for rich, buttery solace even greater when faced with intractable dilemmas.

God gives us only one life. But with good books, we can live a hundred, even a thousand lives in the time we are allotted on this earth.”