Rounded up from 3-point-something stars. Not my favorite in the series, but still a swoon-worthy feminist romance in a superbly researched Victorian setting (with bonus underrepresented history).

Aspiring artist, banking heiress, and plucky suffragette Hattie finds herself in a bit of a predicament in book three of the League of Extraordinary Women — she's spotted in a compromising position with the powerful and unscrupulous financier Lucien Blackstone (her father's rival) and is quickly married off to secure the social standings and interests of all involved parties. Well, not Hattie's interests. Although... the more she gets to know the mysterious Lucian, the more she thinks their interests may align after all. But it's complicated and she's not willing to comprise her ideals to easily uncomplicate it.