Connie BrockwayRomance · Historical Romance·b. 1954
All Through the Night
Synopsis
Anne Wilder is a widow in Regency London, admired in drawing rooms by day. By night she becomes a masked thief who robs the city's wealthiest families, climbing across rooftops above the dark streets. Memories from her past push her to take bigger risks each time.
Her luck runs out when Colonel Jack Seward sets a trap for the thief. Seduction is the only way Anne can get free, and she uses his desire to slip away, leaving him fooled.
Jack keeps hunting the thief, and as he does, he falls for the composed widow he meets in society. He does not know that the woman he is courting and the criminal he is chasing are the same person. His duty requires him to catch the thief, even if the pursuit tears apart the circles he moves in.
This is a historical romance with a heist-and-chase structure, built on a double life and a pursuit that draws the pair together. The tone mixes danger and daring with a tender love story, and the setting is the glittering world of the Regency upper class.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10