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In a Regency London slightly different from the one we know, where the Queen Regent rules in Mad King George’s stead and a woman of damaged virtue can expect little better than to be handed from man to man, one woman rebels against what is expected of her.

Miss Sarah Tolerance, “Fallen” when she eloped with her brother’s fencing master a decade ago, has returned to London and become an Agent of Inquiry – a private investigator for the Quality.  Able to slide between social layers, Miss Tolerance unearths secrets, finds things that were lost, and loses things too dangerous to be kept….

Tasked to find an antique fan the Earl of Vermillion’s father once gave to “a lady with brown eyes,” the job seems a simple enough job. But Sarah soon discovers that she is not the only ones seeking the fan — and that it holds greater secrets than anyone knew. Secrets that may put England, and Miss Tolerance, at risk.

Worse, she finds herself drawn to the Earl, an attachment that they both know is impossible — and may put her in even greater danger…

“Politics, deception, danger and a bit of romance all tome together beautifully in this superb debut.” — Booklist

“Sarah may be a “Fallen Woman,” but she’s also clever, resourceful, and highly capable with a sword. She is so well realized that we accept the conceit of a female sleuth–a liberated Elizabeth Bennett, as it were–who fences, wears men’s clothing, and lives behind her aunt’s brothel. [A] most pleasing and agreeable series.” — Publishers’ Weekly

A delicious mix of Regency mystery and adventure with a side dish of romance. Sarah Tolerance is a sword-master sleuth in a gentleman’s world, and she is cool, clever, and totally fabulous.” — Alison Goodman, bestselling author of The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies

Miss Tolerance’s newest case is a puzzle: who killed the Chevalier d’Aubigny? The French émigré was beaten to death in his own bedchamber, windows and doors sealed tight.

But the Chevalier had more enemies than he had friends, and even his friends had cause to wish him dead. Miss Tolerance’s search takes her from the lowest brothels of the seedy London underworld, where men go to indulge their more aggressive desires, to secrets hidden within the Royal Family… 

“Sarah Tolerance won my heart from the very first scene!” — Pat Murphy, author of The Adventures of Mary Darling

“Miss Tolerance is a delight: intelligent, forthright, stubbornly making her own way through a reimagined Regency England despite being, by her own admission, Fallen.” — Chaz Brenchley

“Luckily for us, Regency England is big enough for both Bridgerton and private investigator Sarah Tolerance, a ‘fallen women’ with a mind as sharp as her sword and a very interesting list of clients. Incomparable!” — Jack Campbell, author of Destiny’s Way and The Lost Fleet

When a young matron asks Miss Sarah Tolerance to find her sister, Miss Tolerance can’t bring herself to say no. The girl has vanished from under her family’s roof, eloped with a mysterious stranger.

Haunted by the similarities between this girl’s story and her own, Miss Tolerance is determined to reunite the girl with her grieving sister. But there is little to go on, only an assumed name and a small portrait. And Miss Tolerance soon discovers there are people who would do anything to see the girl never returns home.

“The Sleeping Partner rocks history and mystery, danger and derring-do, and a scandal-defying detective who speaks firmly, goes where women are forbidden and carries a derringer in her reticule. Hugely enjoyable.” –Nalo Hopkinson, Author of Blackheart Man and Brown Girl in the Ring

“…An engrossing and satisfying mystery with a richly detailed setting in an alternate Regency London, with a determined heroine who is skilled with sword and pistol and not afraid to use either. I highly recommend it.” — Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries

When a fallen woman’s life savings is stolen, Miss Tolerance is asked to find the culprit. But what begins as a simple case of swindled funds soon turns to murder.

As the investigation twists, and more bodies are discovered, Miss Tolerance and her friend and erstwhile suitor, the magistrate Sir Walter Mandif, find themselves untangling a web of passion, deception, and madness…

“An entertaining and subversive take on the English Regency with a heroine I’d definitely want on my side.” — Darcie Wilde, bestselling author of the Useful Women Mysteries

“Twisty and spirited, a hardboiled regency with a fencing master’s sense of feint and misdirection.” — Max Gladstone, author of This is How You Lose the Time War

“A book with a clever plot, a character with enormous charm, mystery, history and a bit of romance, all in one delightful read. Whether you’ve met Sarah Tolerance before or are only meeting her now, she reliably delivers the goods.” Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth and The Jane Austen Book Club

“I love hanging out with Fallen Woman Sarah Tolerance, Regency PI. She’s tough and cool and smart and secretly kind. She takes me all over Regency London at a level of crystalline detail… and her author sure knows how to spin a plot.” — Ellen Kushner, author of the Swordspoint series.