The challenge of redemption!

The Bride of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep

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Once again Griep gives us a London Dickensian backdrop, the seedy underbelly of so many stories. Here Kit Turner and Jackson Forge are forging more than a working partnership they’re committing to a “have and to hold” proposition.

There’s just a few problems. Jackson thinks his Kit will go into the place where all wives go, the home—gracefully. And though Kit wants to do this, tries to—she just can’t.

Plus there’s loose ends. 

There’s some sort of mystery around her mother’s death. 

Jackson and Kit’s joint effort at stopping a thieving ring had supposedly payed off, and yet it hasn’t. 

There’s still stolen silver and goods showing up in these controlled rubbish dump. As Kit “suggested—that maid had been pilfering items and tossing them in the dustbin, [then] who was collecting them here and hawking them to Skaggs?

Someone wants Kit and Jackson dead and has made several efforts.

Then Kit misses her wedding. Oh dear!

What’s a girl to do, particularly as she discovers the man she loves is about to ship out? You’ll love her gutsy move. I did.

A wonderful story, the sinner moving forward, but only just.

A Barbour Publishing ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.

Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change