Lacey finds himself deep in danger, but a new friendship with a man about town comes just in the nick of time. And a man who has friends in high places. Denis-a man who it is said can obtain anything for anyone.at a price. Then Horne is murdered in his own home and the last person to have seen him is one Mr. He learns of other young women who have gone missing, but can find no clue to Jane's whereabouts. His search takes him from the Hanover Square to the backroom of brothels and from the gentle countryside to a home for fallen women. Lacey takes the man home, dresses his wound, and vows to find the Thornton's daughter. Horne's home because he believes the Parliament member to have abducted and ruined his only daughter Jane. He discovers that the man was creating the disturbance outside of Mr. But when an older man is shot and injured by a group of cavalrymen quelling a riot outside fashionable house in Hanover Square, Lacey can't resist getting involved. He feels himself to in a city of strangers with no friends and no purpose. He's on half-pay because of a matter of honor-a matter that put him at odds with his commanding officer, who was also his closest friend. The Hanover Square Affair (2003) by Ashley Gardner (Jennifer Ashley)Ĭaptain Gabriel Lacey, late of His Majesty's Cavalry, has returned from the Napoleonic Wars with a ruined leg and bouts of melancholy. December Reading by the Numbers Challenge.2022 Reprint of the Year: The Conjure-Man Dies.
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