Adrien Leroy

In the glittering ballrooms and exclusive clubs of late-Victorian London, Adrien Leroy moves with effortless charm, a man of wealth and social standing whose appeal masks something far more complicated. When his friends gather at a fashionable club on a cold spring night, waiting for their notoriously tardy companion, they find themselves discussing the one person who seems to hold inexplicable sway over Leroy: the enigmatic Jasper Vermont. As rivalries form among the men over women like Ada Lester, and deeper tensions surface within Leroy's circle, the novel slowly reveals that behind the polished facade of elite society lie whispered conspiracies, dangerous loyalties, and questions about integrity that cut to the very core of who these people truly are. Garvice constructs a world where charm is both weapon and defense, and where the mystery of one man's influence over another threatens to unravel everything his circle thought they knew.