To avenge her sister, she will risk everything in London's shadows—even surrendering her heart to the detective sworn to stop her.
The wildest passion comes under the cover of night in Midnight Pleasures with a Scoundrel, the fourth installment in New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath's thrilling Scoundrels of St. James romance series.
Eleanor Watkins is on a quest to avenge her sister's death, and no one can stop her—no one but the strong, compassionate, and utterly irresistible inspector James Swidler . . .
Shadowing the decadent Marquess of Rockberry through foggy pleasure gardens, she is determined to make her sister's tormentor pay. But when dangerous rogues corner her in the midnight mist, it is James who sweeps her from harm.
Raised in the ruthless rookeries, the Scotland Yard detective knows every trick of the London underworld. Assigned to thwart the crime, he is soon torn between his sworn duty and the fierce, alluring beauty whose touch threatens to steal his guarded heart.