The three main characters in “The Queen of Fives” — Quinn, Tor and Lady Kendal — all are women, which feels like a bracing corrective to most literature of the male-dominated era in which ...

Not every story ended as happily as Packard’s. (Happily being a relative term.) Some women remained locked up for decades, while others were never heard from again.

Want your Victorian romance with a side of historical commentary and political intrigue? You can’t go wrong with the saucy, thrilling, heartfelt adventures of Liana de la Rosa’s Luna sisters.