A Lark's Flight - Hardcoverby Lynn Messina (Author) Verity Lark, Unraveling Deception. Verity Lark England's most tenacious gossip, the London Daily Gazette's most dogged reporter relishes a challenge, which is why she refuses Colson Hardwicke's offer of menial employment. If the infuriating scoundrel really needs the sister of a radical reformer to be distracted with girlish chitchat, he can bloody well erupt into giggles! She has more important things to do figuring out why