Lie by Moonlight Welcome back to Late Victorian Englandand meet the last Master of Vanza... During an investigation into a woman's death, gentleman thief turned private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself at Aldwick Castleand in the middle of chaos. The building is in flames. Men are dead. And a woman and four young girls are fleeing on horseback... Concordia Glade has never met anyone like Ambrose Wells. He is bold, clever, and inscrutableeven to the perceptive gaze of a professional teacher such as herself. He is also her only hope to protect her pupils from the unscrupulous men who are after them, powerful, shadowy figures who will stop at nothing to get what they want...
Putnam Books, June 2005 |





