Sizzling, Witty, PassionatePerfect! Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author Christi Caldwell, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Wicked Wallflowers series, combs Londons underground and finds romance and danger for a missing lord and the lady who loves him. To solve a mystery thats become the talk of the ton, no clues run too deep for willful reporter Verity Lovelace. Not even in the sewers of London. Thats precisely where she finds happily self-sufficient scavenger Malcom North, lost heir to the Earl of Maxwell. Now that Veritys made him front-page news, what will he make of her? Kidnapped as a child, with no memories of his well-heeled past, Malcom prefers the grimy spoils of the culverts to the gilded riches of society. Damn the feisty beauty who exposed the contented tosher to a parade of fortune-hunting matchmakers. How to keep them at bay? Verity must pretend to be his wife. She owes him. The intimacy of this necessary arrangementVerity and Malcom thrust together in close quarterssoon sparks an irresistible heat. But when the charade ends, the danger begins. Will love be enough to protect them from a treacherous plot devised to ruin them?