The seventh novel in Elizabeth Hoyt's New York Time bestselling Maiden Lane seriesA man condemned . . . Falsely accused of murder and mute from a near-fatal beating, Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne has escaped from Bedlam. With the Crown's soldiers at his heels, he finds refuge in the ruins of a pleasure garden, toiling as a simple gardener. But when a vivacious young woman moves in, he is quickly driven to distraction.A desperate woman . . . London's premier actress, Lily Stump, is down on her luck when she is forced to move into a scorched theater with her maid and small son. But she and her tiny family are not the only inhabitants - a silent, hulking beast of a man also calls the charred ruins home. Yet when she catches him reading her plays, Lily realizes there's more to this man than meets the eye.
