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A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Claudine Burroughs, a volunteer at Hester Monk?s clinic for prostitutes, dreads the holidays with her coldly ambitious husband. Then she meets attractive poet Dai Tregarron at a yuletide gala, and her spirits lift. Alas, Dai is soon enmeshed in a nightmare ? accused of killing a young streetwalker who was smuggled into the party. Suspecting the upper-class clique will close ranks to protect the real killer, Claudine vows to do her utmost for Dai.
About the Author
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including The Cater Street Hangman, Calandar Square, Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade, and We Shall Not Sleep, as well as six holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Grace. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
