The Pretender

Summary:

She had a secret she’d do anything to hide.

Agatha Cunnington, headstrong lady from the country, has come to London in search of her missing brother James. The only clue she has is a cryptic letter signed “The Griffin.” Married women have an easier time in Society but for her charade to work she needs a suitable “husband,” preferably someone tall, handsome and rakish–Someone like Simon Rain.

He had a secret he’d do anything to hide.

Simon Rain is the leader of the Liar’s Club, a renegade group of rogues and thieves in the service of the Crown. When members of the undercover cabal begin to die one by one, Simon must bring in James Cunnington, one of his comrades who is suspected of betraying his brothers.

Simon goes undercover and infiltrates the home of “Mrs.” Agatha Applequist–who he believes is James’s mistress. Before Simon knows what’s happened, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to Agatha and is tempted beyond reason to break the first rule of the Liar’s Club:

Never fall in love.