A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence

A buttoned-up woman doctor and a brash, dashing printer of erotic literature learn about love, family, and pleasure in the third in Everlee’s queer historical series (following A Rulebook for Restless Rogues). Jo Smith lives her life as she pleases: wearing men’s suits, selling books (both erotic and otherwise), and running an extralegal business with a man who is her husband only on paper. However, when her husband’s lover falls pregnant, Jo worries that her place in her business, her home, and her world may be jeopardized. Desperate to make herself useful, she takes it upon herself to find a doctor who will treat her husband’s lover, difficult because the pregnant woman is unmarried. Emily Clarke is devoted to duty: her patients, her education, her moral principles, and furthering the cause of women physicians. When Jo comes to her to take on the case, the two clash immediately but grow to realize that they have more in common than their outward circumstances would suggest.