Beware of Virtuous Women
“England is fighting on two fronts, against both Napoleon and the United States. There is a third, smaller front—but hardly less important in certain quarters—and this front is on England's own shores, the combatants England's own citizens.
Anywhere the smallest boat might land, everywhere the Crown's war-tightened purse has made day-to-day living precarious, there is the chance that the local populace is dabbling in a bit of free trading—smuggling.
The Beckets of Romney Marsh do not engage in s...muggling themselves, but they have jumped in with both feet to protect those of their neighbors who do. Their Black Ghost Gang has secured the area and operated in peace for two years. But nov that peace and the entire enterprise are being threatened by the Red Men, a large, vicious gang whose tentacles reach frorr France to London's exclusive Mayfair.
And so is born an unholy alliance between Ainsley Becket's business partner and his own oldest daughter, Eleanor, who travel together to London posing as man and wife to unmask the leaders of the Red Men Gang.MoreLess
Anywhere the smallest boat might land, everywhere the Crown's war-tightened purse has made day-to-day living precarious, there is the chance that the local populace is dabbling in a bit of free trading—smuggling.
The Beckets of Romney Marsh do not engage in s...muggling themselves, but they have jumped in with both feet to protect those of their neighbors who do. Their Black Ghost Gang has secured the area and operated in peace for two years. But nov that peace and the entire enterprise are being threatened by the Red Men, a large, vicious gang whose tentacles reach frorr France to London's exclusive Mayfair.
And so is born an unholy alliance between Ainsley Becket's business partner and his own oldest daughter, Eleanor, who travel together to London posing as man and wife to unmask the leaders of the Red Men Gang.MoreLess
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