Review: Thick as Thieves (Becket-Smythe Quintet)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
Fredericka, her sister and mother were invited to visit Lord Preston' s sister's home for Christmas.  Her brother had been losing money and was not providing the maintenance necessary for them.Lord Preston had vowed not to marry after a friend's wife killed him with a poker.  He feared unmarried women and poker's.  He found his sister Rachel had invited the Beckett-Smythe family with 2 unmarried girls.  He did n' t trust Fredericka but he was very attracted to her.  She knew he did n' t trust her yet she felt attracted to him.  She was trying to figure how to get enough money to care for her sister and mother.  Then Fredericka's  brother arrived to inform them he lost the family home.