Rules for Ruin (The Crinoline Academy) by Mimi MatthewsNo one betrays the Academy. But now Euphemia must decide: break the rules for her enemy, or let the rules break her heart. On the outskirts of London sits a seemingly innocuous institution with a secretive aimtrain young women to distract, disrupt, and discredit the patriarchy. Outraged by a powerful lords systematic attack on womens rights in Parliament, the Academy summons its brightestand most bitterpupil to infiltrate the odious mans inner circle.

the predator of the night…

division 1 softball pitcher

Because some things were never meant to be pretend

the charming wooden man her father carved when she was just a girl

but she doesn’t want to be the damsel in distress

That was always his brother

brings danger and distraction to her door

she expects the worst

For more than a decade

Briar Lane

In the dead of night

But when the tension between them reaches a tipping point and they fall into bed together