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The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

India Holton
Contents ( 31)
  1. CONTENTS
  2. TABLE OF SIGNIFICANT CHARACTERS
  3. - In Order of Appearance -
  4. 1
  5. 2
  6. 3
  7. 4
  8. 5
  9. 6
  10. 7
  11. 8
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  13. 10
  14. 11
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  30. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  31. What’s next on your reading list?
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Book title, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, author, India Holton, imprint, Berkley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Holton, India, author.

Title: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels / India Holton.

Description: First edition. | New York: Jove, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020043100 (print) | LCCN 2020043101 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593200162 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780593200179 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Female offenders—Fiction. | Thieves—Fiction. | Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction. | GSAFD: Historical fiction. | LCGFT: Romance fiction.

Classification: LCC PR9639.4.H66 W57 2021 (print) | LCC PR9639.4.H66 (ebook) | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043100

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043101

First Edition: June 2021

Cover design by Katie Anderson

Cover art by Dawn Cooper

Book design by Laura K. Corless, adapted for ebook by Kelly Brennan

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Significant Characters

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Acknowledgments

About the Author

TABLE OF SIGNIFICANT CHARACTERS

- In Order of Appearance -

Cecilia Bassingthwaite . . . a plucky young lady

Miss Darlington . . . Cecilia’s great-aunt

Cilla . . . a dolorous memory

Pleasance . . . a housemaid and several ghosts

Eduardo de Luca . . . an Italian assassin

Ned Lightbourne . . . a charming pirate in league with the enemy

Isabella Armitage . . . a lady nemesis

Alexander O’Riley . . . a dangerous Irish pirate (and concerned chum)

Patrick Morvath . . . a villainous poet; the aforementioned enemy

Constantinopla Brown . . . a girl just home from boarding school

Assorted scoundrels

Jane Fairweather . . . a spinster

Tom Eames . . . a misled youth

Various ruffians

Teddy Luxe . . . a fencing master with provocative hips