Erica Vetsch is an outstanding author. I like the fact that the authors books have adventure and mystery about them. Yes, there is romance but always above board. Safe read for your older children. Could not always distinguish between characters’ voices. Narrator was not quite as good as other narrators of audios by the author.

A perfect beginning to the “Of Cloak and Dagger” series, Erica Vetsch integrates characters from the Thorndike and Swann series (yay!) and brings them to the forefront. But, how will Sir Bertrand Thorndike, better known as “Bertie”, succeed in solving a theft involving the Prince Regent’s residence where there are more servants than one can count? Aside from that, Bertie doesn’t know whom he can trust, doesn’t have much faith in himself and is excruciatingly afraid to fail. Philippa Cashel, a former courtesan, knows what it is like to be forced into a life where few survive with minimal scars. An awful reality of the Regency era, women and even girls that were not yet fourteen sell themselves to provide for their families or because they were thrust out on their own with nowhere to go. Now that Philippa has been rescued from this life, she is determined to give these societal victims a safe place to live and the skills needed to begin a new life. While balancing a plea for necessary funds and location, Philippa is faced with the possibility that all of her work could come crashing down when two girls she placed in service within Carlton House become suspected of theft. This is a lovely Erica Vetsch story with an audiobook format so very well done by narrator Anne Flosnik. The dialog encompasses terms and phrases from the era and successfully places the reader among the streets of London, Carlton House and Asbury’s broken down estate, not to mention an expertly embedded spiritual thread that naturally occurs within the lives of the characters.