The Sins That Bind Us

A 1920s London Romance - West End Elite meets East End Empire*

Evelyn Vanguard was raised to be a ledger entry - a beautiful, obedient asset in her father's political ambitions. When she refuses his chosen match, admitting her heart belongs to another, he answers the only way he knows how: he has her beaten, stripped, and left for dead on the docks of London's East End.

It's not an accident that she's found there.

Twenty-two years ago, Lord Vanguard built his fortune on Garrick money and Garrick silence - then burned the family that trusted him to the ground. Now his daughter is bleeding out on the same stretch of river, and the man who finds her doesn't know yet that he's about to recognize a girl he met at the water's edge when they were children, and never forgot.

Thomas "Tommy" Garrick runs the docks with a cold head and a colder reputation. He doesn't do sentiment. He doesn't do weakness. And he absolutely does not fall for beaten, half-drowned aristocrats who spit in his face and break his nose within an hour of meeting him.

He falls anyway.

What follows is a war fought on two fronts - one in Parliament and boardrooms, one in blood and back alleys - as Evie is dragged deeper into a world of smuggling, syndicates, and a family who has more reason than most to hate everything she was born into. Every step toward safety costs something. Every alliance has a price. And the closer Evie and Tommy get, the more dangerous it becomes for either of them to survive loving each other.

She was raised to be owned.
He was raised to survive.

Neither of them was built for this kind of belonging - and neither of them is willing to let go of it now.

*A slow-burn, 1920s romance of class war, found family, and love that costs everything.*