The Avengers, but make it MacLean.
That s how romance author Sarah MacLean describes her latest book series, Hell s Belles, which centers on a fierce girl gang in Victorian London. MacLean has been writing in the world of 19th-century historical romance for a decade now, and has built a vast literary universe of characters, including the denizens of her casino the Fallen Angel and the Covent Garden criminal empire of the Bareknuckle Bastards.
But her new series, which will launch this summer with
Bombshell, straddles the criminal underbelly she s spent time cataloging and the ballrooms of her earlier work. This story is very much about women who live in between worlds, MacLean tells EW. Which is something that women have to do generally in the world.