A Highwaywoman's Guide to Robbery
All she wanted was to dodge an arranged marriage to a man she’d not seen in ten years. Now she’s robbing the most dangerous men in the country.
France. 1787. Once a Marquis’ sheltered daughter, now a wanted fugitive, Éliane de Vauclair rises to become La Renarde Noire—The Black Fox—armed with but a mask, a pistol, and enough bravado to shame a bandit.
Mud-spattered carriages. Gilded Salons. A society built on secrets. She stalks the King’s Highway, relieving the aristocracy not of their gold, but of the scattered fragments of the White Ledger—a deadly dossier of corruption and blackmail pointing to her family’s killers.
With a goose-wielding thief, a disgraced priest, a mercurial actress, and a stoic pragmatist, she sets out to avenge the dead. Yet Fortune has an absurd sense of humour: the Crown officer sent to hang her is the man she was meant to marry!
And so, will the Black Fox secure justice, or will her intended send her to the gallows?
“But when to mischief mortals bend their will…” -- Alexander Pope
Tropes & Themes in this book:
- The Noble Outlaw
- Ragtag Found Family
- Enemies to Lovers
- High-Society Heists
- Shadowy Conspiracies
- Vengeance vs. Justice
Note to Readers: Blending the masked-avenger vengeance of Classic Literature with the razor-sharp adventure of a modern historical heist. For readers who appreciate all of the following: contemporary, genre, literary, and Classic Literature. I write in a classic cadence with a modern snap.
