Those Goode girls just keep on giving!

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Courting Trouble (Goode Girls #2), (Victorian Rebels #8) by Kerrigan Byrne       

*****

Who'd have thought that this series could get any better? We first briefly meet Honoria (Nora), Viscountess Woodhaven, in A Dark and Stormy Night, contemplating seeking pleasure with the Stags of St James at the School for Cultured Young Ladies--a front for more lascivious practices. As Nora explains later in Courting Trouble to her sister Prudence, "my time with the Stags of St. James was nothing more than selfish pleasure. A diversion I paid for so I wouldn’t have the complication of emotion." Then Nora had been a client of the house. 
The story of Nora Goode, Prudence's sister, is one of bullying and abuse by the males she's related to, sacrifices made for those she loves, and deep despair. The only man Nora ever loved was Titus Conleith, originally a boy-of-all-work in the Baron of Cresthaven (Goode)household. Years later Titus, now a talented doctor, is operating various hospitals for the poor. Titus thinks never to see Nora again, that is until he finds her bleeding out on his operating table, having been shot by her husband.
Characters from the other Victorian Rebels stand behind Titus as he tries to protect Nora, but who will protect her from herself.
Another absorbing read that straddles life between the darkest stews of London and the ton, encompassing these bold Victorian Rebels. Normally we're talking about the 'bad boys'. Here we follow the fortunes or rather misfortunes of a bad girl, despite being a Goode.

An Xpresso Book Tours ARC via NetGalley 
Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change

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