Once upon a time in Mayfair, a group of wallflowers formed a secret society with goals that had absolutely nothing to do with matrimony. …
I have read the books that came before this but only had a very loose recollection of the characters and even less the plots. I seem to recall liking them better than this one. I did like it, but found the heroine a bit grating at first and the ending a bit too pat.
Theoretically a gender swapped Beauty and the Beast but seemed pretty mild except for the housekeepers who were very thinly veiled Mrs. Potts and Cogsworth.
