Ladies of Lantern Street · Book 3
Otherwise Engaged
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 355
- ISBN-13
- 9780349401737
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 355 pages, the shortest of the three, Otherwise Engaged (2014) closes out Amanda Quick's Ladies of Lantern Street trilogy the year after The Mystery Woman. Like its predecessors, it follows a discreet placement from the agency's Victorian roster of psychic companions and mediums that turns dangerous, paired with a hero carrying his own paranormal or scientific secret in Quick's psychic-inflected version of Victorian England.
Its place in Ladies of Lantern Street
Otherwise Engaged is book 3 in the Ladies of Lantern Street series. It follows The Mystery Woman. See the full Ladies of Lantern Street reading order.
The Ladies of Lantern Street run a discreet Victorian employment agency that places women -- psychic companions, mediums, ladies' companions -- with clients who need rather more than a chaperone, a premise that gives Quick's heroines a plausible reason to be moving through dangerous households and stranger mysteries than a respectable Victorian woman would otherwise encounter. Each of the three novels follows a different agency placement gone dangerous: a case that starts as a discreet job and turns into…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780349401737