A Thread for the Spider

A Thread for the Spider: A Tailor's Historical Romantic Suspense of a Hunted Man

The Owner's Table, Book Seven

Every coat tells the truth.

Sidony Tredwell mends coats for a living. She also reads what a coat won't say aloud, and when a stranger's coat lies to her, she pulls the one thread that unravels everything: a page sewn into the lining, in a fine gray hand, that belongs to the most dangerous book in the city.

Lem Penner kept the index of that book. He has spent four years under borrowed names, hunted by the men who want it back, carrying the only map of it in his own head.

He can read the order. She can find the pages.

"You are the lamp. I am the man who walked to it."

Together they are the only two people alive who can finish what he started, and the only two people the men hunting that secret want gone. The book has been scattered into the linings of a whole city's coats, and a tailor's shop in Gorse Court has become the safest, most dangerous room in the capital.

Neither of them planned on falling for the person at the other end of the thread.

A Thread for the Spider is a slow-burn historical romance and a mystery in one: a craftswoman heroine who sets the terms, a hunted hero making things right, a quarter of neighbors who stand up together, and a shop with two cups on the counter. Open-door heat, on-page danger, and an ending that holds.

A complete standalone. One couple, one full story, no cliffhanger, guaranteed happily-ever-after. Book Seven of The Owner's Table, a series of dark romantic suspense novels set in one connected world. Read them in any order. A Standalone Novel in a Connected World.

For readers 18+. Contains explicit consensual scenes, on-page violence and betrayal by someone trusted.