The Academy always comes first . . . which makes marriage to its most formidable adversary an
exceedingly inconvenient arrangement. Well removed from London’s more curious eyes the
Benevolent Academy for the Betterment of Young Ladies strives toward one clandestine goal: to
distract disrupt and discredit men in power who would seek to harm the advancement of
women—by appropriate means of course. When intrepid newspaper editor Miles Quincey starts to
question the school’s intentions the Academy appoints Penelope “Nell” Trewlove one of their
brightest graduates to put this nuisance to rest. An easy enough mission she supposes. Or it
would be if Miles wasn’t so fascinating—too fascinating to resist—and if Nell’s visit to
London didn’t perfectly coincide with the murder of one of Miles’s reporters. When the
inexorable claws of fate trap Nell and Miles in a compromising situation they agree to an
arrangement that will save their reputations while enabling them to investigate the story that
led to a man’s death as well as the surprising chemistry between them . . .
