1800s London. At 30, bookshop owner Georgia Fenchurch knows she’s considered a middle-class old maid. To rescue people and see justice done, she works with the Archivist Society, too busy to be lonely.

When a respectable middle-class woman comes into her bookshop complaining that handsome Duke of Blackford has abducted her next door neighbor, Georgia is embroiled in theft, blackmail, lies, secret marriages, and murder. Drake may be royalty, may be dead, and is definitely missing. Georgia also sees a man she has wanted to capture for a dozen years, he killed her parents.