num_pages: 392
description: London 1815 just before Waterloo...After her noble father disowned her Lady Serena Ravenshaw clawed her way from streetwalker to courtesan to prosperous innkeeper. Now shes feared and respected from one end of London to the other by the lowest dregs of the citys underworld and the upper echelons of the beau monde and shell do anything to keep it that way.When mild-mannered chemist Solomon Hathaway turns up in her office asking for her help she immediately recognizes him from one fateful night years before. Shes been watching and waiting for him for yearsso she can turn the tables and put him in her debt of course and not because he looked like an angel and was kind to her when she needed it most.Shes determined not to wonder what put that fresh grief in his eyes. But after a betrayal even Serena didnt expect she must put aside her pride and work with Solomon to stop a ring of French spies and save her beloved inn her freedomand England itself.
language: English
title: A Lily Among Thorns
publisher: None