With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and an unabashed love of experiments and explosives, society has labeled Lady Imogen Loveless peculiar…and doesn’t know she’s one of the Hell’s Belles—a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London.
Thomas Peck is not most of London. The brilliant detective fought his way off the streets and into a promising career through sheer force of will and a keen ability to see things others miss, like the fact that Imogen isn’t peculiar…she’s pandemonium. If you ask him, she requires a keeper. When her powerful family discovers her late-night activities, they couldn’t agree more…and they know just the man for the task.
Thomas wants nothing to do with guarding Imogen. He is a grown man with a proper job and no time for the lady’s incendiary chaos, no matter how lushly it is packaged. But some assignments are too explosive to pass up, and the gruff detective is soon caught up in Imogen’s world, full of her bold smiles and burning secrets…and a fiery passion that threatens to consume them both.
Release Date: Aug 22, 2023
Series: Hell’s Belle
Book: 3
Heat Level: Scorcher
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: Avon
Price: $6.99
Imogen Loveless is no ordinary lady. She has a knack for experiments and explosives, which often have her coming into contact with Detective Thomas Peck. Tommy fought his way off the streets and into a promising career, but some assignments are too explosive. Tommy and Imogen have become entwined in a dangerous investigation, and the trouble is coming from within their worlds.
This is the third book in the Hell’s Belles series, which focuses on a female group of vigilantes and their underground network. I think it’s helpful to read the previous books, as Imogen and Tommy have already been introduced, and previous plot points are mentioned.
Lady Imogen is the chemical explosives expert of the Belles and Tommy is often frustrated to find her at “his” crime scenes, collecting her own evidence. There is a bit of a Miss Scarlett and The Duke (PBS series) feeling to the start of this book. The characters have wonderful banter throughout the book, and I loved how they all seemed to have clear voices that I could hear in my head as I was reading. There are great themes of friendship, being yourself, and hurt/comfort that work beautifully throughout the story.
~ Leslie
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