"Acting as Drake Varisey's surrogate at Lord Ennis' house party, Sebastian Cynster, in the company of Antonia Rawlings, is to meet with Ennis, who has heard something that Drake, having assumed his father's mantle in protecting queen and country, needs to know. The gathering is thrown into chaos, however, when Lord Ennis is murdered -- just before he was to speak with Sebastian. Ennis's last words, gasped to Sebastian, are "Gunpowder. Here." Gunpowder? And here, where? With a killer continuing to stalk the halls, side by side, Sebastian and Antonia search for answers and, all the while, the childhood connection that had always existed between them strengthens and blooms & into something so much more"--Container.
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