Review: Better Off Wed by Susanna Craig

Laura Hopkins stalks the night as the vigilante Lady Sterling, avenging mistreated maids and blackmailing the men who prey on them. Jeremy Addison, the reluctant Viscount Sterling, would rather be cracking codes than tracking down a potential traitor with a coincidental name to his own. When a carriage accident forces them together and undercover as husband and wife, the temporary allies realise there's nothing they'd like more than to make the ruse a permanent one.

Having heard a lot of good things about both the preceding books (this is book 3), I had high expectations for this book and somehow it managed to deliver. It's a chaotic caper of deception and manipulation, some of it against each other, but it's also full of witty banter and steamy tenderness, with strong characters and a reasonable plot. There are contrived coincidences and ONLY ONE BED.

Basically, it's a well-written trope fest with Regency spies and so if any of that sounds good, pick up this book.

Better Off Wed is available now in ebook and hard copy

I received a copy of this book via NetGalley; all opinions are my own