I love romances that start with an antagonism caused by a misunderstanding, and I adore Evie Dunmore's "League of Extraordinary Women" series in which Victorian-era suffragists can fall in love and have their happy ending regarding those romantic relationships without having to compromise their feminist values. At first, I found it a little hard to forgive Tristan's comportment to Annabelle in "Bringing Down the Duke" (and honestly, also to Arthur in the undetermined past of this book), but following Lucie and Tristran through their current acquaintance and recollections of their past acquaintance when they were children was too much fun to dwell on that point for all that long. Luckily, Tristan goes through development in that respect that was very satisfying to watch. Just as satisfying was the conclusion and how the author made the ending so different from "Bringing down the Duke" in a way that fits how these two women are different and especially have very different standings, possibilities and risks at the time period the books are set in. Their happy endings in relation to their romances needed to be different and I'm very satisfied with how the conclusions turned out. I too enjoy the fact that the male love interests are or become supporters in the suffragist cause their love interests are so very active in. Evie Dunmore seems to combine all that I like about the romance genre and rectify most that I dislike about it.