Harbor of Lies

<p>Book Two of The Ravenshaw Chronicles. Boston 1722. The harbor runs on tar tide and trust-until respectable losses begin happening with uncanny precision. Elizabeth Fairchild arrives quietly from the south carrying fragments of proof and a vow to stop Edmund Ravenshaw the polished predator who steals like a merchant and vanishes like a ghost. Edmund has reinvented himself as a gentleman agent trading in manifests favors and borrowed names; his hands stay clean while other men do the lifting. To catch him Elizabeth must fight on his chosen battlefield: ledgers seals arrival windows and the whispered economy of docks and taverns. A powerful cousin bankrolls the hunt-carefully for reputation's sake-while an infamous sailor's shadow circles just beyond paper's reach. As seduction and commerce intertwine in drawing rooms and countinghouses Elizabeth learns a brutal truth: in a city built on credit a lie can sail farther than any ship and the cost of exposing a thief may be paid in blood. </p>