Sob as saias austeras de seu vestido, Beatrice Lockwood esconde uma arma. Não pode ser de outra forma, porque Beatrice é umaacompanhante com umamissão secreta -tão secreta como seu passado -e deve estar preparadapara lutar pela vida ou morte a qualquer momento.No entanto, quando se dispõe aimpedir um crime nos jardinsde uma mansão onde seestá celebrando um baile, ela recebe ajuda inesperada de um homem de voz hipnoticamente serena. Depois de entregar o seu cartão, o estranho desaparece nas sombras, deixando-aintrigada.Joshua Gage, que é responsável deinvestigações secretas para a Coroa, também está intrigado. Ele tem um interesse especial nessa beleza ruiva, suspeitade roubo e assassinato, e talvez tambémculpadade fraude pela venda de seus serviços como médium... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under the plain gray skirts of Miss Beatrice Lockwoods gown, a pistol waits at the ready. For Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret missionand with a secret pastand she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown oddly off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy balland then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. His name is Joshua Gage, and he claims to know Beatrices employers. Beyond that, he is an enigma with a hypnotically calm voice and an ebony-and-steel cane. . . . Joshua, who carries out clandestine investigations for the Crown, is equally intrigued. He has a personal interest in Miss Lockwood, a suspected thief and murderer, not to mention a fraudster who claims to have psychical powers. The quest to discover her whereabouts has pulled him away from his mournful impulses to hurl himself into the seaand engaged his curiosity about the real Beatrice Lockwood, whose spirit, he suspects, is not as delicate as her face and figure. He does know one thing, though: This flame-haired beauty was present the night Roland Fleming died at the Academy of the Occult. Guilty or not, she is his guide to a trail of blood and blackmail, mesmerism and madnessa path that will lead both of them into the clutches of a killer who calls himself the Bone Man. . . .
The Mystery Woman - (Ladies of Lantern Street, #2/2)
Amanda Quick
Jove
2013
385 páginas
12h 50m
ISBN-10: B00AFPVQK8
Edições (1)
Ver maisResenhas (1)Ver mais
Estatísticas
Avaliações
4.5 / 6- 5 estrelas50%
- 4 estrelas50%
- 3 estrelas0%
- 2 estrelas0%
- 1 estrelas0%

