Margaret Bennett

The Spinster and the Spy Margaret Bennett

At four and twenty, Miss Jane Colborne is firmly on the shelf, much to the chagrin of her brother, who sees her independence as highly unseemly. While taking a moonlight stroll at a house party, she stumbles upon a notorious rake spying on two Frenchmen. She offers her services to help the Home Office catch an English turncoat, turning her dull life as a spinster into one of adventure with plenty of intrigue. What she doesn't expect is to fall in love with the roguish Owen Sheffield, the Earl of Blackmore. Working for the Crown, Blackmore is currently assigned to uncover a traitor among the aristocracy. As he's spying on two French émigrés, he's forced to pluck the most delectable spinster out of harm's way and into the shrubbery. Now his job becomes doubly difficult, for he must keep his eyes on, but his hands off, the infuriatingly inquisitive Miss Colborne, who poses an even greater threat to Blackmore, this time to his heart.