A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence

Jess Everlee

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A chaotic—and somewhat scandalous—member of London’s underground queer community meets her match in this Sapphic opposites-attract romance from Jess Everlee, the third book in her Lucky Lovers of London series, following A Gentleman’s Book of Vices and A Rulebook for Restless Rogues.

London, 1886.

Jo Smith has already had to start her life over from scratch several times. So when her husband-in-name-only and his paramour announce they're pregnant, she dreads the prospect of starting over again--and fears that moment is imminent. After all, why wouldn't he want to officially tie the knot and make their family legitimate? Desperately seeking relevance, Jo feigns a knowledge of midwifery, before soon realizing she's in over her head, and seeking the help of her friend's physician sister, Emily Clarke.

Emily’s own mother died in childbirth, leaving her father devastated and her family permanently fragmented, and so she’s very hesitant to take on obstetric patients—particularly when they come attached to the annoyingly attractive but decidedly profane and improper Jo. However, as a female physician, it’s hard for Emily to be taken seriously in any other subfield, and now her father is dropping ominous hints that she might need to start making money off her up-til-now charitable practice sooner than she might have expected.

Jo and Emily are each trying desperately to live lives that don’t conform to the standard set for Victorian women, and yet have both still found themselves completely tied up in the troubles of the men they are related to. Their romance is built on the explosive attraction of opposites, combined with the discovery of this troubling similarity in their day-to-day lives. As they get to know and love each other, they find new ways of approaching their lives, both as individuals and as members of their very unusual, patched-together families.