Lady Elizabeth Cabot has put recklessness behind her. But who would have thought that one immodest act could disrupt her entire world and force her toward a loveless marriage? Now desperate, she approaches her childhood friend, Peter Derby, with a daring plan.

Compelling dialogue, rich, gritty prose, and characters you won’t forget — if you loved The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson, or Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger, you’ll love The Serpent’s Bridge.

Recovering alcoholic Detective Anaya Nazario remains haunted by her father's murder. Lucas Nazario was the highest-ranking Puerto Rican LAPD detective, and his case has gone unsolved for twenty-four years since his murder. When Mexican immigrants are targeted by a serial killer, Nazario senses a connection and fights to keep the leadless case open.

They call me a saint, but I’m really the Devil in disguise.

I’m more than I appear.

I’m smarter than people think.

I like it that way.

Cross me, and you’ll soon find out who I really am.

Mariota MacKay believes both her virtue and her life are in jeopardy from one of her clan’s guards. Though she repels his advances, she knows one day he’ll succeed, and because her father cannot accept that his heir is truly at risk, she sees no way to save herself but to run.

All of Society is wondering: Who is the beauty in the scandalous nude portrait hanging in one of London's most fashionable clubs? Is she truly a member of the ton? Who would be so daring, so reckless?

Julian Delane, Earl of Parkhurst, is so certain he knows the truth that he's willing to make a wager on it. But there’s more at stake—clearing the family name from a scandal that claimed his father's life. Julian believes the ravishing model will lead him to answers.

Ten years ago Caedmon left his home town to forget the woman he’s loved all his life and who married another. Now he’s back, with no real plan or hope for the future. The only certainty is that he will never trust another woman again.

Deirdre McDaniel will never forgive herself for leaving her daughter on her brother’s doorstep, believing it would give Emma a better life. Determined to make up for lost time with Emma, while struggling to overcome the demons of her own past, Deirdre discovers a letter that could destroy her entire family. With no other choice, she turns to the last person she wants to deal with: the rugged private investigator who brought grim news on the eve of her brother’s wedding…

Family comes before all else.

I’ll do anything to protect them.

I just didn’t expect to need her to do it.

But she’s mine now.