London Gambit is (maybe) the 11th in the Malcolm & Suzanne Rannoch series by Tracy Grant. The reason I say maybe is that Grant doesn't write in anything approaching chronological order, and it can be really hard to figure out what the order for the various books/novellas is. It's also complicated because Grant first started writing this series with the main characters named Charles and Mélanie Fraser; her website says some sort of publisher input led to the change. And she also wrote some of these titles as Teresa Grant, not Tracy Grant. Whew!
In any case
Gambit is free right now at Kindle US. Although I'm not quite sure if NYLA is a publisher or self-publisher, I've read most, if not all, of the titles in this series and quite liked them, including this one.
link:
https://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-Suzan...dp/B01BH8Y41O/
Spoiler:
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A Malcolm & Suzanne Rannoch Historical Mystery Book 11
On a moonlit London night, Suzanne Rannoch slips away from a glittering Mayfair party to assist a wounded man who has escaped Paris one step ahead of Royalist pursuit. In fever-wracked delirium, the man warns Suzanne of a plot to rescue Napoleon Bonaparte—a plot that could bring chaos to Suzanne's world, for though now married to the grandson of a British duke, she was once an agent for Bonaparte…Before she can ask more questions, the mysterious man disappears into the London night.
That same evening, Suzanne's husband Malcolm, himself a former spy for Britain, is summoned to the warehouse of a shipping company where a thief has been knifed to death. Beside the body is a secret compartment, but whatever the compartment contained is gone.
These two seemingly unconnected incidents prove to be the opening gambit in a deadly game that will test the Rannochs' skill, strain their divided loyalties to Britain and France, and entangle not only fellow agents and spymasters, but their friends and family. The stakes are their security, their marriage, their very lives.
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