The Marriage Method (The Crinoline Academy)
Romance, Historical romance
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
An NPR Books We Love Pick for 2025!The Academy always comes first . . . which makes marriage to its most formidable adversary an exceedingly inconvenient arrangement.Well removed from London&’s more curious eyes, the Benevolent Academy for the Betterment of… Young Ladies strives toward one clandestine goal: to distract, disrupt, and discredit men in power who would seek to harm the advancement of women—by appropriate means, of course.When intrepid newspaper editor Miles Quincey starts to question the school&’s intentions, the Academy appoints Penelope &“Nell&” Trewlove, one of their brightest graduates, to put this nuisance to rest. An easy enough mission, she supposes. Or it would be, if Miles wasn&’t so fascinating—too fascinating to resist—and if Nell&’s visit to London didn&’t perfectly coincide with the murder of one of Miles&’s reporters. When the inexorable claws of fate trap Nell and Miles in a compromising situation, they agree to an arrangement that will save their reputations while enabling them to investigate the story that led to a man&’s death, as well as the surprising chemistry between them . . .