Time's Convert (All Souls, #4)

by Deborah Harkness

“Rules may teach you to be blindly obedient, but they’re no real protection against the world,”

“It took me eighteen hours to bring that boy into the world, and no time at all for some idiot with a gun to steal him away.” Mistress Bishop pulled a small bottle out of her pocket. “War is such a waste of women’s time.”