The Wisteria Society is a crime sorority of very proper Victorian ladies who pilot their fortified flying houses across England, stealing, blackmailing, and taking tea with equal refinement. Cecilia Bassingwaite, the ideal Victorian lady and accomplished thief, finds her carefully balanced life upended when hired killer Ned Lightbourne arrives under orders to eliminate her—and promptly falls smitten instead. When a pirate lord threatens to destroy the Society, Cecilia must team up with her charming would-be assassin to save the women who raised her.

The Dangerous Damsels series rotates its lead characters, but each heroine shares the same DNA: fiercely capable, unapologetically herself, and possessed of a dry wit that could stop a cannonball. Cecilia sets the template—prim on the surface, devastatingly competent underneath—and subsequent heroines expand and riff on that foundation with their own distinct personalities.

Across three books, the series expands from Cecilia's adventure to follow other members of this delightfully criminal sisterhood—including a secret agent spy pairing in book three—each instalment a standalone romance wrapped in the same whimsical, anarchic universe of flying houses, rogue witches, and thoroughly armed Victorian women. The series builds a beloved found family across its ensemble cast while escalating the absurdity and warmth in equal measure.