Red Masquerade: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter

At a London art auction, Michael Lanyard the Lone Wolf comes face to face with Princess Sofia, a ravishing Russian émigrée whose beauty eclipses every painting on the wall. When her diabolical ex-husband drives the bidding beyond all reason, Lanyard spends twenty thousand guineas on a forgery not for the art, but for the excuse to meet her. Sofia is being blackmailed, her past dragged into the light by a man who knows exactly how to destroy her. Only the Lone Wolf can save her. But rescuing a princess means making a dangerous enemy, one who will wait years for his revenge and strike at the woman Lanyard has never met but holds the keys to his heart. This is vintage romantic adventure: early twentieth-century glamour laced with peril, a gentleman thief whose honor outshines his criminal past, and a love story built on danger and deception. Vance writes with the breathless pace of a pulp master and the wit of a silver-screen seducer.