The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

by Mackenzi Lee

I’m trying to pretend I am an indoor cat.

It’s my whole childhood, being sneered at by watery girls for a joke I didn’t understand because I was reading books they could never understand.

Girls like me are meant to have books instead of friends.”

“Of course you don’t,” she says, pushing herself up on her good elbow. “You’re trying to play a game designed by men. You’ll never win, because the deck is stacked and marked, and also you’ve been blindfolded and set on fire.