Midnight on the Frozen Thames
A Regency Frost Fair Romance

About this book:

London, 1814. The Thames has frozen solid, and the city has dragged its vices onto the ice. In the lantern-lit chaos of the Great Frost Fair, Bridget Thorpe serves spiced gin from her father’s tent, navigating a lawless carnival where gentlemen gamble beside cutpurses and the ice groans like a dying beast. When a Bow Street Runner named John Hawkwood materializes from the mist—cold-eyed, iron-shod, and hunting a missing Navy clerk—Bridget wants nothing to do with him. But the river has other plans.

A scream shatters the night. A body is found wedged in a black fissure beneath London Bridge, neck snapped, dispatch case gone. The dead man is Hawkwood’s quarry, and the only witness is a terrified mudlark. As the tide turns and the ice begins to shift, Bridget and Hawkwood are pulled into a hunt that leads from the fair’s gilded sleighs to the rotting hulks of Wapping, where a crime lord named Julian Vance holds the Thames in his grip. Someone is selling government secrets on the frozen river, and they’ve already killed to keep them silent.

With the thaw racing toward them and a killer walking the fair’s crowded lanes, Bridget must decide whether to trust the Runner who sees through her defenses—or rely on the river instincts that have kept her family alive for generations. *Midnight on the Frozen Thames* is a atmospheric Regency mystery where the ice is thin, the gin is strong, and every heartbeat echoes with the sound of cracking water.