City of Flames

The Abducted Heiress

Claire Thornton

Should she trust this dangerous rogue?Lady Desire Godwin’s gentle existence is rudely interrupted when a handsome brigand crosses the parapet of her rooftop garden. She watches, dismayed, as the impudent stranger is carried off to jail.As the Great Fire rages across London, Jakob Balston uses the confusion to escape. He fully expects that Desire will have already fled town. Only, she is still there, at the mercy of the flames and…alone. Is his intention rescue or abduction as he rows them both to safety upstream? He must surely be after her wealth, because no man could possibly want a woman as scarred as she….City of Flames Smoldering desire at the heart of a burning London