First published 2023
Lady Imogen Loveless conducts experiments with explosives while her wild curls bounce around her laboratory. Society calls her peculiar, but they don't know she belongs to the Hell's Belles, a group of vigilantes working in secret across London. Detective Thomas Peck sees through her carefully constructed facade. He climbed from the streets to build his career through determination and sharp observation skills. Where others see an eccentric bluestocking, Thomas recognizes pure chaos wrapped in aristocratic packaging. When Imogen's powerful family discovers her nighttime vigilante activities, they demand someone watch over her. They choose Thomas for the job. The detective wants nothing to do with babysitting duties. He has serious police work to handle and no patience for Imogen's dangerous experiments and incendiary schemes. But this assignment proves impossible to refuse. Thomas finds himself pulled into Imogen's world of secret missions and explosive devices. Her bold smiles hide burning secrets that draw him deeper into her dangerous life, and their fiery attraction threatens to consume them both.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, adventure, mystery, crime, detective, action, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity
Setting: London
Period: 19th-century
416 pages · Paperback · Piatkus Books