Look, it’s hard to find het books wherein the female lead is in charge, or at the very least an equal participant in the romantic endeavors that follow. And the latter is also sort of unsatisfying when you’ve read an entire lifetime’s worth of books which parrot the whole “AND THEN HE RAVISHED HER, THAT RAVISHER” line. Peckham writes in a pretty decently long foreword about her experience with the whole rake/virginal woman who changes him and how she wanted to turn it on its […]

Big Misunderstandings and the hard work of learning that being clever doesn’t mean you know everything. Plot: Lady Constance was schooled in a convent, and in the most predictable outcome of such an upbringing, has turned into something of a belligerently scandalous adult. She has worked to amass power through one of the only tools available to women – gossip. She wields it for good, or at least what she thinks of as good. In the first book in the series for example, she used […]