Elizabeth Percival is sweet. Professionally. She left behind a life of stifling luxury to work in Cadwell’s chocolate shop. After over a decade, she’s itching to take over. She’s not about to let some broad-shouldered brawler mess it up. Even if he does have shoulders to die for.
Sidney Chance isn’t an enforcer…anymore. After a decade of smacking heads together in the name of the Chance Brothers, he’s lieutenant to the city’s most powerful family, but he’s not sure what to do with himself. Sid’s made some bad choices, but maybe the worst is mooning over a girl who keeps making good choices for him. Suddenly he has clean socks and wooly sweaters, and he’s not sure he minds, exactly, but it’s not doing his fearsome reputation any favors. But one taste of sweetness isn’t enough.
Can Sid convince Elizabeth he’s worth the trouble?
Isaiah emerged from the razor gangs of Birmingham as head of the notorious Chance Brothers Limited Company. Every victory is a new responsibility. Isaiah can’t be any less than perfect to keep the peace. He has no time for distractions, especially not his newest employee.
Brighid just wants to keep her head down and do her job. She’s been working as Arthur Bell for nearly a decade, and she’s been gone from Birmingham nearly that long. But her work is shoeing horses, and Chance Brothers have the largest stable this side of Cheapside. Better the devil you know than the Peaky Blinders, the Sloggers, and the Brummagem Boys. Even better, the most notorious Chance blushes when she so much as looks his way.
But Isaiah isn’t the hardened criminal Brighid expected. The heat of their coupling melts Isaiah’s ironclad self-control. Brighid and Isaiah have kept themselves safe by protecting their hearts. Which of our heroes will come out on top?
'[Brighid] had backbone and knew what she wanted. Brighid freaking went for it.' -Goodreads
