This is the first book I've read by Anabelle Bryant and I was intrigued by the summary and love the cover. With that said, I enjoyed this book...just not as much as I wanted to. I was absolutely interested in the story of these character's paths continuing to cross and eventually finding themselves not only working toward the same goal of figuring out what happened to a missing seamstress, but also attracted to each other despite their social stations, Where I struggled was with the characters - Scarlett and Ambrose. There wasn't anything really that drew me into their personal stories. I also wished there was more content around Scarlett's 'Maidens of Mayhem'. We really only get a few sparse interactions and they weren't really that involved in the story.

All of that said, I did enjoy this one and I'll definitely be picking up the next one if only to get to know the Maidens of Mayhem further as I was intrigued by each character introduced and would like to know their stories.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy!