One wallflower. Four gentlemen. One Season to find a husband, and a murderer.

London, 1814. Miss Evangeline Hartwell has spent three Seasons against the wall, talking about ciphers to anyone who'll listen and frightening off every suitor with Latin. Now her father is dead, her uncle is drowning in debt, and the ultimatum is simple. Marry well by Midsummer, or marry the Earl of Wexcombe, a man who has already buried two young wives.

But Eve doesn't believe her father's death was an accident. And when a pickpocket on the frozen Thames steals the one page of his journal she could never decode, and leaves a note behind, Stop looking, or join him, she knows she's right.

Suddenly the most curious wallflower in London has four men at her door:

• The Duke of Ravensworth, who cut her before four hundred people and then sent her violets.

• Viscount Ashdown, the notorious rake who put her name in White's betting book.

• Captain Gideon Hale, a scarred dragoon who nearly drowned chasing her thief.

• Mr. Tobias Kingsley, the self-made shipping magnate who owns every penny her family owes.

Each of them knew her father. Each of them is hiding something. And each of them, one stolen kiss at a time, is stealing her heart.

Eve has a plan: let all four court her, and use every one of them to find the truth.