The Dandy's Defeat (Celestial Series)
The Dandy's Defeat (Celestial Series)
THE DANDY’S DEFEAT
A Celestial Series Novel
A debt of honor. A deadly conspiracy. And a love that defies the ton.
Jonathan St. Clair is the undisputed king of London’s ballrooms. With a perfectly tied cravat and a razor-sharp wit, he has spent years cultivating the persona of a shallow dandy to hide the scars of his past. But when a desperate woman corners him in a dark library, his carefully constructed mask begins to slip.
Lady Virginia Idsen has no time for charming peacocks. Her brother has gambled away the family’s future, and a mysterious blackmailer is threatening to drag her younger sister’s name through the mud of a public scandal. Virginia knows St. Clair frequents the city’s most dangerous gambling dens, and she’s prepared to use his own secrets to force his hand.
But the "debt" is merely the tip of an iceberg.
From the gilded halls of Almack’s to the rain-slicked forests of Shropshire, Jonathan and Virginia are thrust into a high-stakes game of international espionage and cold-blooded murder. To save her family, Jonathan must shed his silk waistcoats and become the man he was always meant to be. To save her heart, Virginia must learn to trust the one man the rest of the world has dismissed as a fool.
With the hounds at their heels and a traitor in their midst, can a dandy and a lady find the truth before the dawn destroys them both?