Sometimes I like the whole I can’t be with you because I have secrets, so instead, I’ll just make you feel like shit because I keep running the other direction trope and sometimes it makes me want to smack the offending main character upside the head. But when he discovers that she may be in some trouble with a ghost from his past he can’t help but try and protect her. Despite his attraction to Sesily, the secrets of his past won’t let him pursue a relationship with her. He’s come back to London to help until the birth of Sera’s child, then he plans on boarding a ship and heading back home once again. The only man she wants is the one man who keeps running home to Boston every time he gets too close.Ĭaleb Calhoun owns numerous taverns, including one with Sesily’s sister Sera. She doesn’t crave marriage and children like her siblings and she is just fine living her life under her own terms and using her notoriety to help with the behind the scenes, undercover, secret work she does with a small group of friends, righting the wrongs of society by exposing dastardly noblemen and terrible employers. And she really has no intention of doing so. She is also the last remaining sister who hasn’t yet settled down into marriage.

Sesily is one of the infamous Talbot sisters, referred to by the ton as the Soiled S’s because of how their father gained his title. This is Sesily Talbot’s book and she is FIERCE. I’m always excited for a new release by Sarah MacLean, especially if it’s in a new series and features a heroine who readers have met before.

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