She lives by her wits; he plays by the rules.

Eliza Summersby has survived London's Seven Dials by being quick with her fingers and quicker than the law. She can pick a pocket without breaking stride and vanish before anyone thinks to stop her. What she can't do is outrun a past she doesn't even know exists.

After a robbery goes spectacularly wrong, Eliza finds herself cornered with the police at her heels. Her only escape is a desperate leap into the nearest carriage?where she lands squarely in the lap of Sir Mark van Bergen.

The youngest director at the Bank of England, Mark has built a reputation for impeccable judgment. A gentleman in his position has no business sheltering a Seven Dials pickpocket.

He should hand her over to the police. Instead, he takes her home.

Under his roof, Eliza discovers something more dangerous than temptation: safety. Mark discovers how easily she can upend the ordered life he's spent years building. For the first time, she can imagine a future that doesn't involve running.

But Eliza isn't who she thinks she is. When the truth surfaces, it could cost her everything?and threaten the reputation Mark has spent his life protecting. To claim the future she wants, Eliza must learn whom to trust. Mark must decide whether respectability is worth losing the woman who's made him want something more.

Because sometimes the greatest risk isn't breaking the rules.

It's falling in love.