This book is scheduled for release in January 2027.
April 1854. England is at war with Russia, and someone inside the British War Department is feeding military intelligence to the enemy. The trail leads across the Channel to Paris—and into the glittering, treacherous court of Napoleon III.
James Devlin, Lord Ravenscroft, has spent years cultivating the perfect disguise: an idle, unpredictable aristocrat no one would think capable of serving Queen Victoria. He is accustomed to working alone. Unfortunately for James, the Queen has decided a wife would make excellent cover for his latest mission.
Lady Elizabeth Wilmot never expected her season to end with a hurried marriage to a man she barely knows—or with that marriage carrying her straight into an international conspiracy. But Elizabeth notices things. A hesitation before an answer. A performance that is almost too polished. The one person in a crowded room who is watching when everyone else is looking away. At the Tuileries, her instincts may prove as valuable as anything James learned in the service of the Crown.
The greater danger may be learning to trust each other. James was once nearly destroyed by a woman who made deception an art. Elizabeth has spent much of her life expecting the people she loves to leave. A marriage entered for practical reasons should have been simple. Neither of them is prepared for what happens when it becomes anything but.
Along Came a Spy is a Victorian romantic suspense novel of espionage, betrayal, marriage of convenience, and unexpected love, set amid the intrigue of Napoleon III’s Paris—where James and Elizabeth must uncover a traitor before the conspiracy reaches dangerously close to home.
