Valour and Vanity

✍ Scribed by Mary Robinette Kowal

• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates;Tor
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 188 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Mary Robinette Kowal's Valour in Vanity is a Regency version of a heist movie with a healthy dose of magic sprinkled in.

After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on the their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute.

Fortunately, one of the gentlemen from the ship is a local banker and arranges for a line of credit and a place to live. Relieved, the Vincents begin the work for which they have come to Italy.

All is proceeding apace until a solicitor arrives at their house and charges them with illegal trespass. Jane and Vincent produce letters from their banking friend, but they are all forgeries, and worse, he has used their forged letters to...