Emma V. Leech

She wrote to a stranger. He stole her heart. Now she’s running straight into danger — and his arms.
A Dangerous, Intoxicating Victorian romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
Lady Cara Baxter is a scandal waiting to happen — and everyone knows it. Bold, impulsive, and trailed everywhere by her beloved (and catastrophically naughty) dog, Sultan, she is one misstep away from ruining herself entirely. The marriage mart is a dreadful bore, the suitors are worse, and the only male who truly adores her is four‑legged and badly behaved.

Cara doesn’t care. She was destined for trouble anyway.

Enter Wulfric “Wolf” De Vere, Viscount Latimer — criminal, smuggler, legend.

To the world, he is Le Loup Noir, the shadow‑king of the Parisian underworld. If you want silks, spices, forbidden luxuries, or a person to disappear, you go to Wolf. If you want a favour, you pay dearly. He is not a man to cross.

But no one knows the real Wolf.
Until he steals a letter.

When Evie Knight describes her lovely friend and her incorrigible hound, Wolf is intrigued. When he intercepts Cara’s letter — bright, bold, and brimming with life — he is captivated. Signing only as W, he begins a secret correspondence with a girl he has never met. What begins as curiosity becomes friendship… and then something far more dangerous.

When Cara discovers her mysterious W is none other than the infamous Lord Latimer, newly arrived in London, nothing will keep her from him. Not his reputation. Not the threat of scandal. Not even the certainty that being seen with him will ruin her completely.

Because Cara has already fallen — one stolen letter at a time.

And Wolf, who has survived a lifetime of darkness, finds himself helplessly drawn to the wild, fearless girl who sees straight through him.

But loving Wolf means stepping into a world of danger, secrets, and shadows.
And Cara Baxter has never been able to resist an adventure.

She was always destined for scandal.
She never expected it to feel like falling in love.