London's greatest beauty and most notorious madam employs the services of a disgraced Bow Street Runner to keep her safe from a stalker...and satisfied after dark.

This short story originally appeared in the collection Parlor Games, also available from HarperCollins.

Jess Michaels' dreams of becoming a writer began in grade school. The voices in her head started muttering then and have muttered ever since, even when she tried to ignore them. Eventually, her husband encouraged her to listen to those characters that kept harassing her in her sleep and she has been writing ever since.