The Spy Wore Silk

By Andrea Pickens

Book Overview

"Regency fans should enjoy this innovative and adventurous foray." -Publisher's Weekly

The most skilled of Merlin's Mauraders, Siena must unmask a traitor lurking among an exclusive club of book collectors. Armed with only her wits, her blades, and her sultry body, she joins the gentlemen at a country house party. But her prime suspect, disgraced ex-army officer Lord Kirtland proves as enigmatic as he is suspicious-and sinfully sensuous.

Kirtland's instincts tell him the enticing "Black Dove" is hiding more than a luscious body beneath her fancy silks. Yet as he starts to plumb her secrets, a cunning adversary lays plans to destroy them both. To live, Siena must end her tantalizing dance of deception and desire-and decide whether to trust her head or her heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1648398138
• ISBN13: 9781648398131
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Oliver-Heber Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Written with flair

A rare find, snagging the reader into the tassels of sizzling with suspense, passion, and intrigue. ~Affaire de Coeur

A wonderful read!

I just loved this book! It was so much fun to read that I stayed up half the night to finish it. The premise was fresh and different, and I found the heroine a really interesting, complex woman. And her chemistry with the sexy Lord Kirtland was to die for! Their scenes are full of really sharp, sexy, witty dialogue. As for the plot, it had lots of twists and turns that kept my interest. The villain was a real surprise. The secondary characters are really well done too. Alexander Orlov almost stole the show. I can't wait for the next book, which features him as the hero!

The Spy wore Silk

There are many critics that are saying it is unbelievable. It is fiction. I found the book to be entertaining...The Regency period was a time when women did push the boundaries.. I hope there are many more books to come...

This is an engaging Regency espionage romantic suspense tale

Lord Lynsley knows that whoever is selling top military secrets to England's enemy must come from a select few who have power, and money to accomplish the seditious deed as the nefarious seller has access to high levels of government. Lynsley especially thinks one of the members of the Gilded Page Club (Dunster, Fitzwilliam, Winthrop, Leveritt, Jadwin, and Kirtland) is the traitor, but these are connected aristocrats so accusations of traitorous activities must be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Linsley turns to the Mrs. Merlin Academy for Select Young Ladies for an undercover spy to ferret out the identity of the culprit as these women taken from the slums of London have been trained to fight or seduce their foes into submission. Mrs. Merlin chooses Siena, a bold fighter and art connoisseur. Siena pretends to be a brash courtesan who infiltrates the club by offering her wares exclusively to whom she decides is the chosen one. Her plan is perfect except she is attracted to the Earl of Kirtland, a war hero who saved his men's lives only to be disgraced for failing to follow a superior's order that would have needlessly led to his squad's deaths. The cat and mice game has begun, but a Russian and a Merlin join the contest. This is an engaging Regency espionage romantic suspense tale starring a courageous heroine and a strong support cast. Readers will appreciate the audacious saucy steps that Siena takes to uncover the traitor while feeling for Kirtland, who is the only who suspects there is more to this courtesan's infiltration even as he wants her like no other female ever before. Sub-genre fans will take pleasure in this fun thriller and look forward to Siena's roommate's adventures as a nineteenth century "Jane Bond" saving England. Harriet Klausner