Kirkus Prize nominee Valerie Bowman’s next Regency romance, the seventh in her Playful Brides series, pitched as The Scarlet Pimpernel meets Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which a French lady’s maid and a spy who is a master of disguise foil a plot to bring Napoleon back from St. Helena while uncovering secrets about each other and falling in love, again to Holly Ingraham at St. Martin’s, in a good deal, in a four-book deal, for publication in May 2017.