[Dark Artifice 01] • Of Dubious Intent

*Do you think when a man’s name reaches my ear, that he doesn’t deserve what I bring him?*

Cat has grown up as a cutpurse on London’s streets — pretending to be a boy to stay clear of the procurers, but that ruse is getting harder to maintain and she needs a new plan. One that will let her keep the gang’s next big score for herself, get her free of the streets, and give her the hope of a new life. Then she finds her plan was someone else’s all along — and that man’s intentions are not at all what they seem.