The Agency for Scandal is glorious! Clever, funny, charming, and achingly romantic, it is a delight from start to finish.

Laura Wood always writes about love and friendship with a deft hand, and this is her best work yet Katherine Webber, author of Twin CrownsAn all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper class world straight out of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmask a villain.

Felicity Vane may be a mathematical genius, but getting her family to understand her academic ambition is proving difficult.

As her first social season is fast approaching, it might be time to take matters into her own hands.

Infiltrating the glamorous world of The Lucky Penny and winning her university fees over a game of cards could be the perfect plan if only it werent for the interference of Ash, the piratical and frustratingly handsome owner who accuses her of cheating.

Now, Felicity finds herself thrown into the latest investigation of the Aviary a fearless, covert group of female investigators and caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the worst villain they have faced yet.

When the stakes are this high Felicity cant afford to lose, but as she and Ash get drawn deeper into a world of criminal conspiracies is she also gambling with her heart?

Incredibly charming Sophie Irwin, author of A Ladys Guide to Fortune Hunting

Bridgerton meets Charlies Angels.

A smart, charming, brilliantly plotted and swooningly romantic story about a collective of bold women changing their world.

The most romantic, exciting, empowering YA of the year.

About the Author

Dr Laura Wood is a best-selling, award winning academic and writer. She is the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing and the author of the ‘Poppy Pym’ series, the Blue Peter Book Prize shortlisted Vote for Effie and several young adult novels including A Sky Painted Gold and A Single Thread of Moonlight.

Laura loves Georgette Heyer novels, Fred Astaire films, travelling to far flung places, recipe books, Jilly Cooper, poetry, cosy woollen jumpers, Edith Nesbit, crisp autumn leaves, Jack Gilbert, new stationery, sensation fiction, salted caramel,Rufus Sewell’s cheek-bones, dogs, and drinking lashings of ginger beer.