Poison Potions and Parasols

<p><em>She's content with her life...</em><br>Miss Eugenia Chapelle was born on the wrong side of the blanket. After her mother was disowned and fled to London she pretended to be the widow of a French aristocrat to draw customers as a modiste. After her mother's death Genie continues the lie playing the half-French designer of Madame Chapelle's and running the business with her aunt. She never expects an earl to search out his illegitimate daughter twenty-six years later.</p><p><em>He will rip it apart...</em><br>Mr. Clayton Pierce works for one of London's most respected investigators. He has two cases on his docket-tracking a gang of counterfeiters passing banknotes and finding a long-lost child of an earl. When he meets the beautiful and talented Miss Chapelle his attraction for her is as strong as his obsession with solving mysteries and catching criminals.<br> </p><p>After Genie witnesses a possible murder at Hyde Park she becomes a key witness in his first case. Then by a twist of fate she also becomes linked to his second assignment. With danger lurking around every dark corner and the past the murkiest shadow of all Clayton learns that solving a case does not always guarantee satisfaction of a job well done. As passions flare and the stakes are raised will his success as an investigator be his ruin in love?<br> </p>