The Queen of Regency Romance returns to her craft with her career-launching sophomore novel, These Old Shades.

On a previously uneventful night in Paris, two ships-who in any other circumstance would likely continue to pass through the night-collide in a stroke of serendipity. The first being Justin Alastai-the infamous and dastardly Duke of Avon-on his way to seek revenge on the Comte de Saint-Vire; the second being the abused youth L