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Katz grinned and bowed, sweeping the hood out to the side as if it were a hat. “At your service, my Lord.” Jack strode toward her, his limp almost imperceptible as he crossed the room.
“You can’t be here,” he hissed and grabbed her shoulders.
She stepped back and out of his hold. “Of course, I can. It’s what I do.”
His intense gaze didn’t leave hers. “Not now. Not tonight. Not while I’m here. If I’m associated—you knew I’d be here.”
“I did. It wasn’t hard to figure out where you were headed since there was only one engagement ball tonight. Actually, it doesn’t seem as if anyone wants to compete with such a grand event.”
He was far from mollified. “You have to leave. Now.”
“I just arrived. If I’m going to take this kind of risk, I need to leave with something.” She winked.
“You can’t. Not at an event I’m attending.”
She sauntered by a wingback chair, trailing her fingers along the top of it. “Don’t you see? If I hit this grand ball and then a few more, it won’t bring any special attention to anyone.”
He stepped toward her, the chair between them. “It’s too dangerous. Every lady here is taking inventory of what every other one is wearing.”
He did have a point, but she wasn’t so easily swayed. “True. However, the men aren’t, and I’m sure our host isn’t.”
“No.” His immediate response was telling.
She cocked her head. “Is he a friend of yours?”
“I met him a fortnight ago, but he has been of some assistance. I don’t want anything from here to go missing.”
She pouted. “That’s no fun.” Two weeks ago? Could the man in question be a Disruptor?
Jack’s lips quirked up, just enough to tell her he wasn’t angry anymore. “I hadn’t been aware that stealing from others was expected to be enjoyable.”
She walked around the chair, sat on its large arm, and crossed her legs, well aware how amazing her legs looked in pantaloons. They were even indecent by modern-day standards. She wiggled her brows. “Sometimes it’s more enjoyable than others.” Rising, she opened her mouth again, but at his startled expression, she stilled. Footsteps. Shit.
She glanced toward the French doors. Too far.
“There!” Jack whispered as he pointed to a door behind her.
She spun and raced for it, hoping it was unlocked. Luck was on her side.
Katz Almira’s mission is clear—travel to the past, steal the note that ruins the world, travel back to the present. Easy. She’s the best pickpocket Time Weavers, Inc. has ever had. Posing as a poor widow in Regency London, she convinces her target, Lord John Byron, a man as sexy as he is wealthy, to take her in off the streets. But at her request to keep her hidden, instead of his cushy manor, he allows her to stay in a warehouse full of orphan boys he cares for there.
It’s the perfect place to hide, and bonus, her new roommates can help her find the mysterious note. With John as their pseudo-father, they know what he does every day, and with who. Katz can’t afford any distractions, but she soon finds herself getting attached to the orphans—and John—even helping him plan for their futures.
Each day she spends in the past is another day closer to her deadline, another day closer to returning to her own time, and another day John and this makeshift family get dangerously closer to her heart. But Katz staying in the past would have dire consequences for them all…
Author bio:
Lexi Post is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of romance inspired by the classics. She spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about the classical literature she loved. From Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death” to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, she’s read, studied, and taught wonderful classics. But Lexi’s first love is romance novels so she married her two first loves, romance and the classics. From hot paranormals to sizzling cowboys to hunks from out of this world, Lexi provides a sensuous experience with a “whole lotta story.” Lexi is living her own happily ever after with her husband and her cat in Florida. She makes her own ice cream every weekend, loves bright colors, and you will never see her without a hat.
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