After five years of using her family's wealth to purchase the release of convicted thieves who acted in the wake of poverty and desperation, and help them begin again, Phoebe Brackenton suspects a trap to stop her. A carriage idling near the London docks is her only hope for escape, yet its occupant, Lord Galen Townsend, may be shocked by her whispered explanation. Galen could be Phoebe's downfall, too, when she finds herself falling in love.