Ash (Hundred Days)

Lady Sofie Haddon keeps a dangerous secret.

Using a male pseudonym, she paints masterpieces for a song, struggling to keep her family’s estate from bankruptcy. When the Duke of Kendal commissions one of her works and then cheats her out of a small fortune, ruin seems inescapable. Fear of being discovered, shamed, prevents her from taking Kendal head-on.

Sofie’s struggles worsen when she collides, physically, with Ethan Grayfield. A Crown spy, Ethan is suspicious of Lady Sofie being the traitor he’s stalked for months. When she wounds him with an insult about his status as a bastard, he’s determined to make her answer for both offenses. Sofie can’t take Ethan’s threats seriously; she knows him only as her brother’s prying, condescending acquaintance. But Ethan has secrets of his own, infinitely darker than anything Sofie has imagined: Espionage, theft, murder.

When Sofie’s skill as a painter makes her invaluable to Whitehall’s war efforts, she and Ethan are forced to work together. One assignment, and they part ways for good. But Sofie has discovered a man capable of getting her satisfaction against Kendal, a man so deep in the shadow world she can trust him with everything she hides - but can she trust him with her heart?