- The plot against Delaney puts Lorna in danger, Delaney enlists help for a scheme of his own, and an invitation to an opulent ball leads to unexpected consequences.
- The Crown makes a devious move against James Delaney, while the Company has its own reasons for frustrating the plot. As London begins closing its doors to him, James sets out to protect his business by any means necessary. With empire and mayhem in mind, James adds depraved chemist Cholmondeley to his company with explosive consequences. Meanwhile, Lorna aims to prove she's anything but a weak link, while buried secrets become a matter of yet more intrigue and violence.
- Lorna is offered her release from Newgate jail if she signs over her claim to Nootka sound to the bloated Prince Regent on the Crown's behalf but James alerts the East India Company, who arrange her release to prevent it, for their own interests, and he then takes her to the safety of his house. He also approaches dissolute chemist Cholmondely to help him to manufacture gun-powder and thwarts another attempt on his life. He is wary when he receives an invitation to a society dance thrown by the Countess Musgrave, a woman with a murky past, taking Lorna as his companion. Here he is bewildered to find the other guests number Zilpha and husband Thorne and Dumbarton, who makes him a cryptic offer before telling the countess he believes she sent the man to kill him. Whilst his associates put the gun-powder in place he is challenged to a duel by the drunken and desperate Thorne, who accuses him of having sex with Zilpha.—don @ minifie-1
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