Lady Runaway
A Regency Novel
Fleeing arrest by a spurned suitor, Lady Riana goes to London. When she helps a man attacked by footpads, she is knifed. Luckily, the victim of the attack is army surgeon Captain Devlin Carrington. He takes takes her to his home to tend her injury.
When Dev cuts off her chemise to suture the wound, a fortune in jewels spill onto the blood soaked sheet. Has he saved a lovely jewel thief only to watch her hang?
Riana claims the jewels as her own. Worried about the consequences of their situation, she tells Dev she ran away from her abusive husband.
Can these two go against society’s conventions to grab the lives they desire?
When Dev cuts off her chemise to suture the wound, a fortune in jewels spill onto the blood soaked sheet. Has he saved a lovely jewel thief only to watch her hang?
Riana claims the jewels as her own. Worried about the consequences of their situation, she tells Dev she ran away from her abusive husband.
Can these two go against society’s conventions to grab the lives they desire?