The Glittering Prize (ePub)

With a murderer hot on her heels, becoming the greatest treasure in a bored aristocrat's collection may be Jemima's only hope of survival.

Blue-stocking Jemima Percy's talent for ancient languages gives her father the advantage as an archaeologist and treasure hunter until, on the verge of their greatest discovery, Jemima finds her father brutally murdered and their house ransacked.

When a valiant saviour plucks Jemima from the ruthless killer's arms she thinks she and the key to her father's ground-breaking discovery are safe until her anonymous protector is killed while defending her.

Alone and without means, Jemima stumbles from one danger to the next until her only hope of survival is to join the demimondaine in London as mistress to a rich and powerful aristocrat.

Forced to surrender honour and reputation, Jemima still harbours a spark of hope and when handsome and charming Lord Ruthcot provides a possible means of escape, Jemima faces the most difficult choice of her life.

Will she risk everything to claim the treasure that was the culmination of her father's life's work?

Or is it time to relinquish the glittering prize that is rightfully hers in return for safety, respectability, and love?

The Glittering Prize is Book 2 in the Hearts in Hiding series but can be read as a standalone.