Lady Knights or brigands?

Lady Knight (The Diamonds #2) by Amalie Howard       

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A heart thumping beginning with our heroine and her friends holding up a coach on Hounslow Heath.

Lady Zenobia Osborn is the daughter of a duke. She’s in her second season and her father, Duke of Harbridge has decided Zia must marry.

Zia doesn’t want to marry. There’s no one who’s caught her interest except her brother’s rakish friend, Mr. Ravi Nasser. That was when Zia was younger. He had been very dismissive of her. That had hurt.

Now Zia attends a finishing school where she and some fellow students secretly read and discuss the works of thinking women like Wolstencroft. Their latest read is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Zia and her friends have formed a secret gang called the Lady Knights. They support the orphanage and school that’s part of the same land their school stands on. The school and orphanage has been targeted by the slimy Viscount Heller (who’s Rafi’a uncle). The Viscount and his cronies want the land to build a gambling hell. 

Well that’s not going to happen, not on the Lady Knights’ watch! Hence the holdup!

An hilarious look at these times with an underlying serious comment on the role of women in society, the despicable practice of declaring women as suffering from Hysteria often resulting in their convenient incarceration, the injustice of sentencing, and a myriad of other issues thinking women were fighting for.

A Random House ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.