No longer the girl who came of age in Captain Hook’s arms, Red-Handed Jill is a storyteller, wife, mother, mistress—and murderess. Hook, Jill, and Cecco arrange shelter from her faux husband with Cecco’s gypsies. A complication arises: Hook and Jill are two halves of one soul, but to win trust from the Romani, Jill must forget her lover ever existed. Heinrich kidnaps Jill’s father to force her to Vienna. Jill applies her artifice to escape, forging alliance with other women in her world.