Chapter 1
League Rule 17: Never let your title, or a lack of one, define who you are.
Excerpt from the Quizzing Glass Gazette, September 9, 1821, the Lady Society column:
Lady Society is quite frustrated with gentlemen as of late, especially those of a roguish nature. In particular, she is casting her disapproving eye on Mr. St. Laurent, the younger brother to the Duke of Essex. This gentleman has attempted a callous seduction of a young lady of the ton and then rebuffed her when she conveyed her interest. Mr. St. Laurent, you cannot play the cat to a mouse with a woman who is no longer in the game. It is over. Leave the lady be since you have no desire to marry her. Consider yourself warned.
“Consider myself warned?” Jonathan St. Laurent stared at the paper he had stolen from Lucien,
