After rescuing a young orphan named Elodie Finch, quick-witted bandit Blaise Calder fights to survive alongside her, eventually rising to second-in-command of a notorious gang. When the authorities crush their hideout, Blaise escapes with Elodie—and a dead scholar's marriage contract to Cressida Whitmore, a wealthy heiress in Saltford. Seeing a chance to make a quick fortune, he poses as the scholar and becomes her live-in husband. His plan is simple: get paid and disappear. But marrying into wealth may cost him more than he bargained for...
