What is more dangerous? London's dark alleys? Or a midnight dance with a lady? Lady Isabella is off-limits for thief taker, Jack Emerson. Other women practically draw maps to their bed chamber windows when he patrols St. James—never the raven-haired widow. They’ve shared hot looks, fast quips, and lobbed an insult or two. Independent Lady Isabella doesn’t need Bow Street’s best…until one Christmas Eve in a dark alley.