Anna Kronberg isn't precisely what one would consider a good Victorian gentlewoman. Disguised as Anton, she has a challenging career as a male medical doctor during the day. At night, she's an unflinching nurse who treats the members of her colourful and impoverished neighbourhood.Garret O'Hare is handsome, charming, never without his set of lockpicks, and bleeding heavily from a gunshot wound. So he does what he does best: he breaks into the home of the neighbourhood nurse, hoping she'll save his life.Anna, however, doesn't need anyone poking around in her private life. And she most certainly doesn't need a bloody thief collapsing into her bed in the dead of night.The Lion's Courtship is the prequel and companion novel to the award-winning Anna Kronberg series.