Her father's a fine rogue and sometime smuggler. Jess Whitby grew up on the mean streets of the East End. Joanna Bourne continues to impress me with her creativity. Talking about My Lord and Spymaster: Sebastian Kennett is a self-made man - passionate, adventurous, and powerful a master trader and international shipper a man who'll risk everything for a profit. This is a novel of complexity, and there were times when it got so intense I wanted to put it down, but I couldn't. I'm very glad to have experienced it, but it wasn't an easy romance. The players in this one felt more real and the stakes were higher than the first two. The British intelligence gang is all here, and I loved seeing those characters again. But when he meets Jess, he finds himself falling hard for her. Raised as a poor but cunning pickpocket, Jess. Sebastian Kennett has his reasons for wanting to see Josiah Whitby hang. A daring beauty will risk everything for love in this thrilling romance in Joanna Bournes Spymaster series. She sets about using those skills, and her network of old connections, to ferret out the truth. Having spent her early life on the dangerous streets of London as a thief, she has skills that most young ladies do not. Jess Whitby's father, the owner of a shipping company, is accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, but she is determined to discover the real traitor and save her father from the gallows. If you're up for something deeper and more gritty than the usual, you might enjoy this. This one was a more intense than the first two books in this awesome series, but still very entertaining.
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