Lindsay Dunseld is of marriable age.  But, "after the scandal surrounding their elder brother's untimely death, most gossiped the girls would have no means for a decent match."  Now, Lindsay is facing a horrible marriage because her father is dying and the family shall be cast out of their house.  

Lord Harold Grimsby, is Lindsay's intended.  He is an old man who has been married 3 previous times and all 3 wives died under suspicious circumstances.  

Johnathan Rycroft is an old friend of Lindsay's.  They grew up together and had a potential love match but he went away with her brother.  He came back but not her brother, and Lindsay is quite bitter about this.  She feels Jonathan had something to do with her brother's death.

Andrew, Lindsay's brother, had taken to spying for the British government.  He convinced Jonathan to enlist.  The two were spying on Lord Grimsby for "selling military secrets to the French."  No body else but Jonathan knew that the two had been working for the government.  

As it turns out, Jonathan confides in Lindsay and because of her engagement to Lord Grimsby, she is convinced by the War Office to spy as well.  Lindsay is thrown into a world where she doesn't know who to trust but she keeps coming back to Jonathan.  Jonathan seems to pop up all the time, just in time to save Lindsay.

This book was okay.  I wouldn't consider it fabulous or terribly memorable.  The two main characters, Lindsay and Jonathan are just okay.  I held no real attachment to them.  The dilemma that Lindsay's family is mentioned several times but not dwelled upon.  I guess I wanted more about how her family is destitute and desperate.  Her father is in the picture but as a small character.  He is painted as a hard and unfeeling man, but also a thief.  But why?  There just isn't enough information here to figure out what his issues are. 

I had thought that the reader would follow Lindsay into spying on Lord Grimby and the reader would follow her through her engagement but that is not the case here.  Lindsay begins searching for Andrews lost journal and ends up in her father's papers.  

I hated how my kindle copy would have FI missing from almost every word that contained those two letters.  FIND became nd.  Very annoying.

I would have preferred it if the author had left her book clean.  The sex scene felt forced and unnatural to the characters.  There wasn't much sexual tension in the book and the story would have been better had she left that out. 

Overall, not the most intriguing characters and story.  The mystery was okay.  I just wanted more detail about Lindsay's life and more about her take on things.  Maybe had it been told in the first person... I'm not sure.  The story was really taken over with the mystery.  There was hardly any romance, which leads me back to how unnecessary the sex scene was.  It added nothing important to the story. Luckily, it was short and I was able to skip over it. This is a quick and easy read. Not much depth was added, which, if added, would have made the story better...the mystery better.  Some of the story was boring and slow.  Not spectacular but not horrible. Lastly, this cover is so overly used and reused.

Content: Two instances of damn, not clean

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.