If You Deceive MacCarrick Brothers 3 Kresley Cole

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the wonderful staffs of the University of Florida research libraries. These guys knoweverything and helped me navigate all their many resources: obscure texts—filled with fascinating details to enrich fiction, Victorian diaries—with first person accounts of my era of interest, and mapping and imaging—for authentic historical settings. I greatly appreciate all your help.

The love of a good woman?

To save a wicked man like me?

Never…because there's no woman born

who's as good as I am bad.

—ETHAN ROSS MACCARRICK,

LAIRD OF CLAN MACCARRICK,

EIGHTH EARL OF KAVANAGH

I didn't steal it—I swear!

Oh, as if things never fall into your pocket!

—MADELEINE ISOBEL VAN ROWEN,

SNEAK THIEF, OPPORTUNIST