An Hour Unspent (Shadows Over England)

As England plunges into war, Barclay Pearce uses his skills as a thief to help his nation. But upon rescuing Evelina Manning from a mugging, he begins to wonder what his future might hold. When her fathers invention gives England a military edge, the whole family is in dangerand it may just take a reformed thief to steal the time they need to escape it.