The Spider's Touch

England, 1715. Gideon, Viscount St. Mars, is still an outlaw. After escaping to France, he agrees to return to England as a messenger for James Stuart, hoping the mission may help restore the title and estates taken from his family.
Meanwhile, Hester Kean has found herself inside the household of the Earl of Hawkhurst, the man who now holds Gideon's title. When Sir Humphrey Cove is murdered at the opera, suspicion reaches into the Hawkhurst circle—and the murder weapon points back toward the household.
Hester begins asking questions. Gideon investigates from the shadows as Blue Satan, moving through political contacts and the dangerous network surrounding the Jacobite cause. What first appears to be a murder within Hester's social circle soon connects to loyalties, secrets, and a conspiracy that could put more than one life at risk.
As Gideon and Hester follow different paths toward the same truth, their growing partnership is tested by a mystery that reaches from Georgian drawing rooms to the hidden world of political intrigue.
The Spider's Touch is Book 2 in Patricia Wynn's Blue Satan Mystery Series, continuing the Georgian historical mystery of Gideon, Hester, and the outlaw known as Blue Satan.