Thornton, Elizabeth

Lady Rosamund Devere, having received a marriage offer from a dull prince, finds more excitement than she had bargained for when she decides to spice up her life by delivering a last meal to death-row prisoner Richard Maitland, and becomes first a pawn, and then a willing hostage, as he breaks out of jail and goes on the run in an attempt to clear his name.

While searching for an old enemy who has committed yet another murder, nineteenth-century London detective "Case" Devere runs into--and cannot fight his attraction to--the mysterious Jane Mayberry, a spinster advocate of women's rights running a secret shelter for abused women and hiding other secrets of her own.