An exciting fresh book in the series featuring Elizabeth Mls, con woman turned Lady, from your beloved nationwide bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries. Elizabeth Mls finds herself in a position no con might help her escape. Her beloved fiance, Gideon Bates, is normally awaiting his submit the draft to battle in the fantastic War. Elizabeth is definitely getting it hard to think about anything else, but Gideon provides tossed himself into his function, planning wills for military before they dispatch out. Corporal Tom Preston is normally about City of Scoundrels component owner of Preston Shoes, a company that is making shoes for the military, so he has a rather large estate. He needs a brand-new will, however, because he offers just been secretly married to a woman whom his family members would never approve. He wants to make sure she and their unborn kid are provided for if he does not return. When Tom is certainly later reported killed, Elizabeth and Gideon learn that the new will has truly gone lacking after Tom’s bride revealed her identification to his family. Unless the new will is available and validated, the original will, which leaves everything to Tom’s brother, will prevail and the wife and child will get nothing at all. If Tom’s brand-new bride survives, that’s. Some terrible threats have been leveled against her, and Elizabeth and Gideon must figure out a way, legal or not quite, to secure Tom’s fortune for his wife and child while saving her life along the way.