Fire and Lace: A Victorian Irish Historical Romance

Bridget “Birdie” O’Connor was born to a Sterling fortune and a place in London’s ballrooms. She threw both away for the cause — running the hunted out of a starving Ireland one forged ticket at a time, a price on her head and a dead brother’s oath in her chest. There is only one name she hates more than her own: Fitzroy. The name on the gate her people walked out of to die.

Lord Aidan Fitzroy inherited that gate, that debt, and that guilt. A reforming magistrate one foreclosure from ruin, he has spent two years opening the doors of eleven dead cottages to no one at all. Then a fifteen-year-old drags a bullet-torn rebel to his door in the rain — a woman he should surrender to the Crown, and cannot — and the safest place either of them has ever known becomes the one they are most afraid of.

Hiding her means treason. Trusting him means betraying the dead. And the closer they burn, the surer Birdie becomes that loving a Fitzroy is a rope she will never throw — until the morning she rounds a bend and finds him with his neck bared to the law over strangers, and understands, too late, exactly who she almost let herself lose.

A slow-burn, behind-closed-doors Victorian romance of rebels, redemption, and the fortune a woman finally learns to aim like a weapon.

Fire and Lace is Book 3 in the Children of Scandal series — sweeping, sensual historical romance in the tradition of Lisa Kleypas and Sarah MacLean. Each book stands alone. Guaranteed happily ever after.