He doesn’t know the office they are in is her father’s, but the puzzle box she has taken is his, and he very much needs it back. She is leaving when, much to her surprise, Clayborn appears and stops her. Sure it must somehow be important, she takes it, too. She finds the information she wants but also sees he has hidden away a wooden puzzle box. Clayborn has a flawless reputation but unlike many of his peers is passionate about changing the law in order to end child labor.Įarly in the book, Adelaide is breaking into her father’s desk to retrieve information to help the Belles. She first meets Henry, the Duke of Clayborn, at a ballroom in Mayfair where he speaks rudely to her and she believes he is a cold and arrogant. Adelaide has bright red hair and spectacles but disguises herself as a wallflower at balls so that no one recognizes her as the daughter of a famous London criminal. After escaping her father, she changed her name and was taken in by The Duchess, leader of the Belles.
She is skilled, brilliant, fearless, and awesome.Īdelaide grew up the daughter of a crime boss and had to pick pockets just to survive. Adelaide is their Matchbreaker, the one who exposes dirty secrets and breaks matches. Among other things, the Belles work to prevent young women from marrying rogues and scoundrels. Though society knows them as part of the ton, their passion is taking down aristocrats that abuse their power and then helping save the women those aristocrats have harmed. She escapes and ultimately joins the Hell’s Belles, a group of very strong women. In the opening scene, our heroine Adelaide Frampton is at her wedding, which quickly turns into a riot between two very violent, rival gangs, one of which is run by her father. It’s a jam packed book – there’s a road trip with racing carriages, highwaymen, kissing, stabbings, witty banter, a duke, a thief, and the last room at the Inn, with only one bed, of course. Heartbreaker is the second book in the Hell’s Belles series.
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