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Dear Ms. Stuart,
This was the first book of yours I read and I’m glad I knew ahead of time that your heroes can be fairly dark. It helped me to like Alastair MacAlpin much more than I would have.
He is the famous jewel thief the Cat who steals from the rich, often while a guest at their parties but who also sometimes enters homes via the roof a la Connie Brockway’s All Through the Night. She is an impoverished noblewomen trying to support her mother and sister by doing Tarot readings for the nobility. He sees her at a party and decides to seduce her just for fun while she’s trying to maintain her diginity and find a wealthy husband for her younger sister. She’s been doing some card readings for a sleazy Bow Street Runner to help him nab criminals but he’s started to take too much of an interest in Fleur, the younger sister and is pressing Jessamine to do a reading to tell him who the Cat is. Everything comes to a climax on the night that Alastair decides to do his greatest heist, the last big one before retirement.
Alastair was a deliciously …
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