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The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels


A Romance Novel


Book 1 of the Dangerous Damsels Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Historical Fantasy,
  • Victorian England,
  • Enemies to Lovers,
  • Forced Proximity,
  • Grumpy/Sunshine
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Victorian lady thieves with flying tea parties and crime sororities
  • Grumpy heroine and sunshine assassin forced to team up
  • Fantastical historical romance with pirates, gothic abbeys, and cannons

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Grumpy/sunshine books usually have the man as the grouch, but this historical romance (with a twist of fantasy) flips it around! Cecilia Bassingwaite is the perfect Victorian lady by day and a thief by night. Ned Lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with Cecilia. It's just a shame he's been ordered to kill her. These enemies are forced to team up and save Cecilia's fellow thieves of the Wisteria Society.

Publisher Description

A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance.

Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means.

Sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt, but all things considered, it's a pleasant existence. Until the men show up.

Ned Lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with Cecilia from the moment they meet. Unfortunately, that happens to be while he's under direct orders to kill her.

His employer, Captain Morvath, who possesses a gothic abbey bristling with cannons and an unbridled hate for the world, intends to rid England of all its presumptuous women, starting with the Wisteria Society.

Ned has plans of his own. But both men have made one grave mistake. Never underestimate a woman.

When Morvath imperils the Wisteria Society, Cecilia is forced to team up with her handsome would-be assassin to save the women who raised her--hopefully proving, once and for all, that she's as much of a scoundrel as the rest of them.

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