The last man Alexandra Whitney wants is the one she needs... New Woman, Suffragette, and recently freed from a tyrannical father, Alex arrives in London determined to do everything she was forbidden to do, from fighting for women's rights to dressing in the latest fashions, mingling in society, and taking a lover. When Alex literally runs into a sinfully attractive, but highly annoying man with the unlikely name of Griffin, she's not at all surprised that he is brother to the suffrage movement's fiercest enemy. But it's not long before Alex realizes that the web of intrigue surrounding Griffin involves more than just fighting the attraction between them. For Griffin isn't just stubborn, he's in deadly peril, and it's up to Alex to prove to him that although she might have lived a sheltered life, even she knows they need to work together if they want to survive the threat that looms over them both. Can Alex abandon a life she's...

Lackey, Flint and Freer whip up a luscious bouillabaisse of politics, intrigue, love and black magic set in an "Other-worldly, New-Age Venice." Like the actual 16th-century city-state, the authors' Venice of the 1530s is a dangerous place, filled with as many illicit love affairs as murders. Garbage and occasional dead bodies float in the stinking canals. The city is also a target for would-be foreign conquerors: the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland, and the small city-state of Ferrara, ruled by Enrico Dell'este, who surreptitiously watches his grandsons, Marco and Benito, the story's water-rat heroes. Around Benito, a thief, and Marco, a canal doctor, swirl a host of characters, major and minor: the men and women who ply the gondolas and rafts; the spy Caesare Aldanto, the boys' supporter; plus courtesans, whores, monks, priests, knights, shamans, undines and the demon Chernobog. Meanwhile, the winged lion of St. Mark's, symbol of Venice, is stirring, and its shadow falls on Marco as the city's future ruler.

The last man Alexandra Whitney wants is the one she needs… New Woman, Suffragette, and recently freed from a tyrannical father, Alex arrives in London determined to do everything she was forbidden to do, from fighting for women's rights to dressing in the latest fashions, mingling in society, and taking a lover.When Alex literally runs into a sinfully attractive, but highly annoying man with the unlikely name of Griffin, she's not at all surprised that he is brother to the suffrage movement's fiercest enemy. But it's not long before Alex realizes that the web of intrigue surrounding Griffin involves more than just fighting the attraction between them. For Griffin isn't just stubborn, he's in deadly peril, and it's up to Alex to prove to him that although she might have lived a sheltered life, even she knows they need to work together if they want to survive the threat that looms over them both. Can Alex abandon a life she's dreamed of to join forces with a man who stands for everything opposite to her? And if not, how is she going to live with a heart that's not just broken, it's crushed beyond repair? Note: this book was originally published as Suffragette in the City. It was heavily revised in 2021.