Book three in the Maiden Lane series focuses on a widow and a river pirate. Silence Hollingbrook lives and works at the Home for Unfortunate Infants and Foundling Children, an orphanage run by her brother in the rough London neighborhood of St. Giles. Her sailor husband was recently lost at sea and she finds comfort in a special bond with an infant named Mary Darling. However, London's most notorious river pirate, Charming Mickey O'Connor, takes Mary claiming that she is his child. He tells Silence that she is welcome to stay with him and Mary at his home, but this will ruin her reputation and may affect the donations to the orphanage. Mickey has ulterior motives - to protect Silence and Mary from his worst enemy, the Vicar of Whitechapel, and to make Silence his.
This was another winner from Hoyt. Her descriptions of the characters, the settings, and the evolution of the hero and heroine were great. She also writes action very well, and there was plenty in this absorbing story of two very different people finally finding the best of themselves with each other. I can't wait to read the next in the series. 383 pages.
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