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The Scarlet Thief
Crimea, 1854. Jack Lark has escaped the poverty of London’s East End by taking a dead officer’s identity, but the deception places him in command when the King’s Royal Fusiliers come under devastating fire on the banks of the Alma. With men looking to him for orders, Jack must turn the instincts of a ranker into the authority expected of a gentleman officer.
The opening novel places Jack inside the first major battle of the Crimean War, where British, French and Ottoman forces confronted the Russian army after landing on the peninsula. The chaos of nineteenth-century infantry combat tests not only his courage but the stolen social identity on which his new life depends.
