The Secret Life of a Lady

Lady Hannah Simmons is a wallflower nobody looks at twice — which is exactly how she likes it. Underneath the plain exterior she is Queen Victoria's leading operative, slipping unnoticed through London's aristocratic drawing rooms with daggers in her stockings and pistols in her pockets, on the trail of a deadly killer.

She isn't the only one hunting him. Duke Robert Killian, a war-scarred ex-soldier now working as private investigator to the Prime Minister, is chasing the same case — and finds his professional rivalry with the intriguing Lady Hannah curdling into something closer to desire.

The Secret Life of a Lady is the first book in Darcy McGuire's Queen's Deadly Damsels series, a spicy historical romance for readers who want their Bridgerton with a dagger up its sleeve.