Tom Linley.

It was the name she'd assumed over a year ago when she'd been sent to Berkley's club to gain Charles's trust. The thin, scrappy lad known as Tom Linley did not exist; she was Lily Linley, daughter of a country gentleman and mother to a little girl she had to pretend was her baby sister. And she would protect that child at any cost, even if she had to destroy a good man to do so. She had no choice.

As much as she wished she could refuse, she couldn't. Nor ...