Blameless by Gail Carriger

Alexia Tarabotti is not having the best of times. She’s moved back in with her mother and sisters, an action that should warrant concern in itself, but the event motivating the change of venue is regrettably as unfortunate. Lord Maccon can’t stay sober long enough to oversee the Woolsey pack by himself leaving his beta, Professor Lyall, to deal with the mess; Lord Akeldama has flown the coop to parts unknown and taken almost every one of his vampires with him; Alexia is therefore faced with a disagreeable choice: stay home and suffer the tortures of the Misses Loontwills or travel to the continent with her small, but fierce band of friends in search of any clues that might explain her most inconvenient condition. To make matters worse, no matter where she goes, Alexia seems to be chased or ambushed with sundry characters wanting nothing more than to have her dead. In short: life as a preternatural continues as normal.

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