The Pleasures of Autumn is the third Erotic Romance Novel in the Pleasures series by Evie Hunter (a pen name for the combined work of two authors). The problem with leading two lives is that no matter how hard you try to draw a line between the two worlds and how good you may become at lying, eventually the truth will come out, whether you want it to or not. Sinead O’Sullivan has this knowledge breathing down her neck when the Fire of Autumn, an astronomically expensive ruby, is stolen from her place of work and she is the only suspect. Niall Moore, an expert in protection and investigation, is hired to not only find the ruby but also keep Sinead under her bail conditions. On both sides, trust is hard to give, but the heat between them is ever-growing. Despite Niall using every trick in his bag, he knows Sinead is lying about something. All the evidence is stacked against her, and there is no way to prove her innocence except that she is adamant that she knows who took it, if only someone would believe her. But with a ruby so well known and only one suspect, the police are not the only ones with Sinead in their crosshairs.