Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies

Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," is done being overlooked. At forty-two and determinedly unmarried, she and her grieving twin sister Julia need a distraction from Regency society's endless disapproval — and they find one when a friend asks them to help rescue her goddaughter Caroline from a violent marriage. Their carriage is accosted en route by a highwayman Gus accidentally shoots, only to discover he's Lord Evan Belford, a man from their past exiled twenty years earlier on a murder charge.

What starts as one rescue becomes an ongoing, unofficial practice: the sisters go on to take cases society would rather not look at, including women unjustly committed to an asylum and girls trafficked into a brothel, using their status as harmless spinsters to move where no one suspects them.