Silk and Syndicate

Set against the suffocating, oppressive heatwave of Victorian London, Silk and Syndicate plunges readers into a high-stakes world of aristocratic corruption, maritime smuggling, and high-society deceit. When Arthur Pendelton is found strangled with a length of rare ballot silk, rigid and principled Scotland Yard Inspector Douglas McIntire is ordered to close the case quickly. But the evidence points straight to Meridian Holdings, a shadowy shipping syndicate backed by the highest pillars of Parliament and protected from the inside.

Enter Lena Sweet—a brilliant, quick-witted recovery specialist and master of disguises who is hunting the same corrupt network for her own reasons. Forced into an uneasy partnership, Douglas and Lena must cross the invisible line between law and outlaw. From infiltrating a high-stakes masquerade ball in Mayfair to secure the syndicates master ledger, to dodging police gunfire across slick Wapping rooftops and staging a harrowing, high-speed chase down the fog-choked Thames, their pursuit of justice becomes a breathless, cat-and-mouse game against time.

As they draw closer to unmasking the traitor at the heart of Scotland Yard, Douglas and Lena discover that the most dangerous risk isnt the syndicates enforcers—its the undeniable, explosive attraction sparking between a detective sworn to uphold the crown and a thief who operates entirely outside it. Packed with razor-sharp banter, atmospheric period detail, and heart-pounding suspense, Silk and Syndicate is a thrilling historical romance crime novel about two opposing souls finding their match in the dark shadows of the empire.