"When Captain Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer. The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with after the battle of Salamanca in Spain Several years ago. As Lacey tries to piece together the events of the previous night, he discovers he'd promised to help a Quaker gentleman find his missinig son, and...

"James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single chess piece, a white queen.The piece tells Lacey nothing, but he soon realizes it plays deeply into Denis's ongoing battle for control of London's underworld.Meanwhile Lacey encounters an old army...

September 1817 Captain Gabriel Lacey travels with Lady Breckenridge to his boyhood home in northern Norfolk only to discover mysterious happenings in and around the Lacey estate. A young woman, cousin of an old friend, has gone missing, strange objects appear in Lacey's ruined house, and the dark windmills on the marshes keep pulling Lacey to them. The underworld criminal, James Denis, uses Lacey's visit to Norfolk as an opportunity to have Lacey...

"1818. Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however--James Denis has tasked him with finding an 'object' in Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost. The task does not turn out to be so simple. Locating what Denis wants in the teeming city proves difficult, sending Lacey and Grenville exploring tombs and temples...

A cavalry captain returns from the Napoleonic wars to find the doors of London society closed to him. Then a missing girl and horrific corpse plunge Captain Gabriel Lacey into Regency London's dark underworld

In 1816 London, Captain Gabriel Lacey encounters Lydia Westin, wife of Colonel Roehampton Westin, who has recently been accused of murdering an English officer in Portugal during the Peninsular War. Before he could come to trial, however, Colonel Westin was found dead at the foot of the staircase in his own house. Lydia insists he was murdered and that she knows the culprits' identities. Intrigued, Lacey begins to investigate, and soon finds himself...

Captain Lacey stops to assist a young woman in the market at Covent Garden, and realizes to his astonishment that she is his daughter, Gabriella. Lacey then discovers that his estranged wife and her paramour, a French officer, have journeyed to London at the invitation of James Denis to dissolve her marriage to Captain Lacey. Meanwhile, a Bow Street Runner and a man from the Thames River Police have asked Lacey to help them look into the disappearances...

Le capitaine Gabriel Lacey du 35e régiment des Dragons légers, officier de cavalerie relevé de ses fonctions, a énormément perdu sur le champ de bataille au cours de la guerre péninsulaire. Cependant, il dispose encore de son sens inné du bien et du mal quand il se retrouve face à une injustice... Quelque chose d'inhabituel a croisé le chemin du capitaine Lacey: une femme de haut rang marchant seule dans les rues de Londres, par une nuit...

Le capitaine Gabriel Lacey du 35e régiment des Dragons légers, officier de cavalerie relevé de ses fonctions, a énormément perdu sur le champ de bataille au cours de la guerre péninsulaire. Cependant, il dispose encore de son sens inné du bien et du mal quand il se retrouve face à une injustice... Les riches parvenus de la haute société londonienne envoient leurs fils à l'école de Sudbury, o ils apprennent à devenir de parfaits gentlemen....

Leonidas begins a job working as a builder and almost immediately stumbles across a valuable ring. Cassia realizes is very, very old, and has more significance than just being a trinket. The ring is key to unlocking a possible conspiracy against Nero, and the princeps commands Leonidas and Cassia to uncover the plotters by any means necessary. But the ring and conspiracy are just the tip of the troubles that Leonidas uncovers, bringing danger very...