The second book in the series. 
 The series is inspired by Oliver Twist book and its cast of characters finding their individual ways and becoming respectable, at least some of them, as adults. 
 Jack Dawkins known to everyone as Jack Dodger, bastard son of (view spoiler)[Henry Sidney Stanford, the seventh Duke of Lovingdon and Emily Dawkins a scullery maid (hide spoiler)] is Lorraine Heath's tribute to The Artful Dodger, the cleverest of Fagin's pickpockets. 
 I had such high expectation for this book because Artful Dodger is my favorite character in Oliver Twist and after reading the first book in the series In Bed with the Devil and meeting Jack Dodger, I assumed nothing could go wrong. Well, I was incorrect. Somewhere, somehow Jack lost his swagger, maybe it was having a one dimensional heroine who ended up being (view spoiler)[ his real step mother. EEK! (hide spoiler)] I loved the secondary story (view spoiler)[ about Jack's belief that his mom sold him at the age of 5, what happened to him those first 3 nights, his band of brotherhood, his relationship with the kidsman, and his ultimate sacrifice to protect Luke in jail. They shaped him into the man he became. (hide spoiler)] Olivia was very bland, I couldn't relate to her and maybe because right from the start I knew why Jack was left with the inheritance the physical attraction and chemistry between the main characters made me very uncomfortable. I also couldn't see Olivia the daughter of a duke, the widow of a duke, the mother of a duke giving up her status which would reflect on her son to be married to Jack. He was not just a commoner, but a man with the worse warranted reputation.