![]() ![]() With the help of Vincent, a fellow lady of the evening, and the handsome gentleman from the War Office, India dodges Cossacks and a meddlesome vicar, proving herself resourceful, stubborn and amusingly cynical, even as she risks death for the gratitude of her country, plus a new gown and furs. ![]() This development bodes ill for England-so ill that India is grabbed off the street and brought to Prime Minister Disraeli’s office to hatch a plan to retrieve the case from the Russian embassy. ![]() But Bowser’s case has gone missing, along with his tart. They’re stopped in their tracks by a dark, handsome stranger, Bowser’s colleague at the War Office, who’s happy to help remove the corpse to a slightly less disreputable setting so long as they turn over a portfolio of government documents Bowser had on him. When one such upstanding gentleman, known as Bowser, keels over dead in the midst of a particularly embarrassing session, India aims to leave his body for discovery far from her house with the help of Vincent, a filthy street urchin. India Black is the proprietress of Lotus House, an upscale London brothel serving the finest of England’s civil servants and military men. ![]() A clever madam finds herself defending Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s government from international intrigue. ![]()
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