6/30/2023 0 Comments Better off wed susanna craig![]() ![]() Jeremy quickly finds Laura while she’s posing as a beleaguered, mud-spattered demoiselle with a twisted ankle to get closer to her latest quarry and says Jeremy is her husband – Lord Sterling – to help bolster her cover. ![]() “Lady Sterling” happens to be Laura Hopkins, and her motivation happens to be much simpler – she targets sexual harassers, seducers and rapists, and she uses the dirty secrets she’s learned to threaten those those powerful men until they stop harassing their domestic servants or those they’ve abused. Surely Lady Sterling wouldn’t willingly lie to her own husband – and this way he can get close enough to sniff out her secrets. Scott wants Jeremy to stop her before it’s too late…by marrying her. Scott thinks Lady Sterling is looking for blackmail material and might have gotten her hands on some high-octane secrets. General Scott, Jeremy’s supervisor, has noted that the pickpocket’s game seems to be concealing more – she only targets vulnerable men with high social positions. Impoverished spy, codebreaker and ex-army Captain Jeremy Addison, Viscount Sterling, has been assigned to the case of sly ‘Lady Sterling’, a notorious high society pickpocket who has been bedeviling Scotland Yard for ages. With a smart and strong heroine and a stiff-spined hero, it’s warm and strongly written, and the best book in the Love and Let Spyseries thus far. Susanna Craig’s Better off Wed is delightful if slightly imperfect. ![]()
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