LOVE & KNIVES

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>For a quiet girl from the Cotswolds the smoke-filled streets of 1920s Birmingham is a foreign world of soot secrets and sharp edges. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Elisabeth Montgomery</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is thrust into a life she doesn't understand with a family that's falling apart at the seams. Naive and innocent Lizzie's never known the thrill-or the risk-of a man's touch. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Until she meets</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> James MacGuire.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A brooding former Irish gangster with a past drenched in blood and whiskey. James is everything Lizzie should avoid yet one smouldering encounter ignites a fire she can't extinguish. He's dangerous intoxicating... and hiding dark truths that could shatter them both.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As long-buried secrets rise to the surface and enemies close in James must confront his past. But redemption comes at a cost-and Lizzie's heart might be the price. Will love be enough or will the truth destroy their only chance at a future?</span></p>