Book excerpt: In 1805 three little girls decided to create a "boys club" because boys have more fun. Their childhood was filled with sword fighting, horse racing, and archery. Now in 1815 they are all grown up and expected to join Society. Who will marry such independent and deadly misses? Trials of Artemis features forthright and impulsive Jack Walters who accidentally meets her match in the overbearing Gideon Wolfe, Earl of Harington. Athena's Ordeal centers on ambitious and clever Sabrina "Sabre" Bittlesworth as she insists on helping his grace Quincy Telford, Duke of Beloin. Fates for Apate finally reveals the whereabouts of third Haberdasher George Lockhart and we see her fall for a man who has secrets of his own. Saving Persephone closes out Act I as we learn more about the man who fostered the Haberdashers, Robert Bittlesworth, while he falls for an independent Scottish-American heiress.