Bloodshed & Belladonna.
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London, 1899.
Vivian (Via) Taylor-Jones is about to get married to Jensen Williams, rich socialite and politician. Vivian Taylor-Jones does not want to get married to Jensen Williams.
To her, he is an abusive, misogynistic man, but to the rest of her family he is an angel. She tries everything to scare him off, but one night, he threatens her and she decides to take drastic measures. She decides to kill him.
But wait, how does one kill their fiancé? Why, you hire an assassin of course.
Georgie Webb is a genius. Unfortunately, this is the 1910s and she is a woman. Even more unfortunately, her dad is sick and they need money. So, at the ripe old age of fourteen, she starts making poison for a group of assassins.
Five years later, she is one of the most well respected murderers in the field.
So when a beautiful woman comes knocking asking her to kill her fiancé for her, she's pretty happy to do so.
They just have to kill one man. Unfortunately, Georgie Webb is a genius. And fully capable of uncovering a government conspiracy in the process.
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