Everyone knows that long before trends are established enough to be noticed,
someone always goes first.
Four sisters—variations on Eleanor Roosevelt, Sarah Bernhardt, Jane Addams, and Oscar Wilde—they're teachers, sponsors, fairy godmothers, referees, nannies, midwives, coaches, besties, double-darers, and the aunties every single one of us wished we'd always had. The Subversive Lovelies seed change, passion, healing, and power wherever they go. The Subversive Lovelies are historical fiction with a speculative twist.
Jasmine Increscent—
someone always goes first
A wedding. Increasing. And it's time to start her vicety ... it's a three-ring circus—oh, my.
Jasmine Bailey is the second eldest of the Bailey siblings, yes, those Baileys. Known for being much more in the present than the future, years earlier she'd begun a one-woman mission to serve mothers who'd been abandoned by their spouses in the worst slum ever to darken New York City: Five Points. Universally recognized by her honorific, Lady Jasmine, throughout Gilded Age society, the wealthy take their checkbooks in hand whenever they see her strawberry blonde braid and her lissome figure coming.
Now it's time for Jasmine's vicety—the second of four the sibs had planned upon the death of their beloved father four years earlier. Since then, Jezebel's pair of viceties—The Obstreperous Trumpet, a saloon, and The Salacious Sundae, an ice cream parlor—were going great guns. Jasmine had originally intended to create a high-end gambling hell. Except ... her wedding is scheduled in less than a month, and she's increasing. There's, uh, a lot on her plate.
Jasmine's research takes her from the lowest of the low policy shops in Mulberry Bend to an outré visit to the most elite gambling institution in town. Still, she's struggling with what is in her heart about starting this vicety. A chance sentence, if you believe in that sort of thing, overheard whilst at breakfast one morning changes everything.
Will her struggle with gambling resolve to her satisfaction, or will Jasmine have to scrap every idea she ever had about it to start over again? Sure, no doubt she could, but does she want to, and how will that affect her siblings and their nefariously well-meant agenda in Chelsea Towers?
