<p>A Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey&rsquo;s former commander Colonel Brandon.</p><p>Instead of denying the charges Colonel Brandon allows himself to be arrested and claims to Lacey&rsquo;s shock that the lady he&rsquo;d stayed protectively near at the ball is his mistress. Lacey realizes that he is the only person not convinced of Brandon&rsquo;s guilt&mdash;all present including Brandon&rsquo;s wife believe Brandon committed the murder.</p><p>Colonel Brandon&rsquo;s reticence to tell the truth proves to be Lacey&rsquo;s greatest obstacle in his race against time to prove Brandon&rsquo;s innocence. Lacey&rsquo;s hunt for evidence uncovers dark secrets that go back to the Peninsular Wars and involve the origins of Lacey&rsquo;s and Brandon&rsquo;s own private war.</p><p>Book 5 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries</p>