Bow Street's best investigator Sir Brook Derring is hailed as a hero by the <I>ton</I> but he cares little for the praise or the women. He fell in love once with Lady Lillian-Anne Lennox and shortly thereafter lost all romantic notions.<br><br><br><br>As the eldest daughter of the Duke of Lennox Lila has everything but the freedom to follow her heart. All that is taken away when she's kidnapped by a London crime lord but she knows that someone must be looking for her. She hopes that it will be Brook the only man she's ever truly cared for and has never been able to tell.<br><br><br>Contains mature themes.