Casebook of Barnaby Adair

Penelope Ashford, Portia Cynster's younger sister, has grown up with every advantage - wealth, position, and beauty. Yet Penelope is anything but a pretty face in a satin gown - forceful, willful, and blunt to a fault, she has for years devoted her considerable energy and intelligence to caring for the forgotten orphans of London's sooty and seamier streets. But now her charges are mysteriously disappearing. Desperate, Penelope turns to the one man...

Malcolm Sinclair, who has remade himself after being miraculously spared from death, finds an opportunity to make amends for his past when a mysterious woman named Rose and her children need protection from a dangerous enemy.