At sixteen, Sarah Tolerance scandalized Society when she ran away with her brother's fencing master. After his death, Society expected her to follow the route of all Fallen Women, and become a courtesan.But Sarah Tolerance has never done what was expected of her. Instead, she reinvents herself as an Agent of Inquiry - a private investigator for the Quality. Able to slide between social layers, Miss Tolerance unearths secrets, finds things that were lost, and loses things too danger...

In England of 1811 Queen Charlotte may be Regent, but the fate of women—particularly Fallen women—can be particularly harsh. To avoid the fate of others of her kind, Sarah Tolerance works as an Agent of Inquiry, using her wits and her skill with a short sword to find lost trinkets and wastrel husbands. But sometimes her cases are not so simple.When a fallen woman's life savings is stolen, Miss Tolerance is asked to find the culprit. But what begins as a simple case of swindled fund...

Miss Sarah Tolerance may be a Fallen Woman, but she refuses to take the path decreed for her by English Society in the year 1810. Instead, she becomes an Agent of Inquiry, hired by those of means in the court of Queen Regent Charlotte.Expecting to specialize in finding lost trinkets and wastrel husbands, her skills with pistol and sword — and her sharp wit — lead her to more complicated cases.Her newest case is one such puzzle: who killed the Chevalier d'Aubigny? The French...

For a Fallen Woman and Agent of Inquiry, a young matron of quality is not the usual client. But when such a woman asks Miss Sarah Tolerance to find her sister, Miss Tolerance can't bring herself to say no. The girl has vanished from under her family's roof, apparently bent on elopement with a mysterious stranger.Like, and unlike, Miss Tolerance's own scandalous elopement years ago.Haunted by the similarities between this girl's story and her own, Miss Tolerance is determine...

Vonda N. McIntyre preferred to keep her author's biography short and sweet: "Vonda N. McIntyre writes science fiction." While true, this modest claim conceals accomplishments that earned her multiple accolades and an enduring place among the most influential fantasy and science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.Even more important to the authors of this tribute anthology, McIntyre was a kind and generous supporter of other writers. In Bright Morning, eleven career writ...