Knockout: A Hell's Belles Novel
New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell's Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble).
With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and an unabashed love of experiments and explosives, society has labeled Lady Imogen Loveless peculiar...and doesn't know she's one of the Hell's Belles--a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London.
Thomas Peck is not most of London. The brilliant detective fought his way off the streets and into a promising career through sheer force of will and a keen ability to see things others miss, like the fact that Imogen isn't peculiar...she's pandemonium. If you ask him, she requires a keeper. When her powerful family discovers her late-night activities, they couldn't agree more...and they know just the man for the task.
Thomas wants nothing to do with guarding Imogen. He is a grown man with a proper job and no time for the lady's incendiary chaos, no matter how lushly it is packaged. But some assignments are too explosive to pass up, and the gruff detective is soon caught up in Imogen's world, full of her bold smiles and burning secrets...and a fiery passion that threatens to consume them both.
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A life-long romance reader, Sarah MacLean wrote her first romance novel on a dare, and never looked back. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romances translated into more than twenty languages, a romance columnist, and the co-host of the weekly romance novel podcast, Fated Mates. A graduate of Smith College and Harvard University, she lives in New York City.
"Sarah MacLean's books are fierce." -- Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series
"I will read anything Sarah MacLean writes." -- Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read
"Sharp, sexy, action-packed, propulsive escapism at its absolute finest. We are lucky to be living and breathing in the Sarah Maclean era." -- Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners
"In the latest instantly irresistible addition to her Hell's Belles series, the always brilliant MacLean smartly plays to her literary strengths with a delightfully unconventional heroine and a by-the-book hero whose combined efforts to see that justice is done generate plenty of sexy sparks along the way as well as a deftly constructed plot that will richly resonate with twenty-first-century romance readers." -- Booklist (starred review)
"The third entry in MacLean's vibrant historical "Hell's Belles" series (following Heartbreaker) is exciting and danger-filled... MacLean excels in crafting characters that know who they are and where they stand. Adding to the pleasures are the abiding friendships that make the story and the found family that spreads across London. It may be historical romance, but the throughline is as modern as today's headlines. Series readers will be delighted, but those new to the run really should start at the beginning to enjoy how deftly MacLean is building these relationships." -- Library Journal
"Fun with a capital F, a spectacular, near-cinematic adventure...Heartbreaker is a full-hearted, deeply romantic reminder that romance novels can and should be dangerous and fun in equal measure." -- Entertainment Weekly
"MacLean delivers big action, high heat, profound emotions, and a thoughtful critique of power and privilege in this dynamite tale sure to keep readers tearing through the pages...This sensational romance completely lives up to its title." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Filled with intimate thoughts, delicious yearning, and many sighworthy romantic moments... Subplots regarding the Hell's Belles' clients and targets add great tension to the book, while the women's friendship brings levity and humor. But it's the quiet, vulnerable moments between the central couple, who embrace each other as true equals, that will ensnare reader's hearts. Sublimely sensual and passionate." -- Kirkus Reviews on Heartbreaker
"Everything MacLean does is perfectly on point." -- Booklist
"Romance readers can always rely on Sarah MacLean to bring the summer heat." -- Bookish
