Books like Earls just want to have fun by Shana Galen
Marlowe, a skilled pickpocket and housebreaker living with the Covent Garden Cubs in London's Seven Dials, leads a life of crime and cunning. Though hardened, she remembers a former name, Elizabeth, hinting at a hidden past.
When Lord Maxwell Dane is drawn into investigating her activities, he learns the social riddles of the ton. Dane teaches her court etiquette, yet the forbidden attraction between them threatens to unravel both their worlds.
The novel charts Marlowe’s struggle between street survival and upper‑class intrigue, exploring themes of family life, social customs, and the perilous interplay between love and crime.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Shana Galen
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