Valiant Ladies

Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey's YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth-century Latinx teenagers known as the Valiant Ladies of Potosí.

By day, Eustaquia “Kiki” de Sonza and Ana Lezama de Urinza are proper seventeenth-century young ladies. But when night falls, they trade in their silks and lace for swords and muskets, venturing out into the vibrant, bustling, crime ridden streets of Potosí, in the Spanish Empire’s Viceroyalty of Peru. They pass their time fighting, gambling, and falling desperately in love with each other.

Then, on the night Kiki’s engagement to the viceroy’s son is announced, her older brother—heir to her family’s fortune—is murdered. The girls immediately embark on a whirlwind investigation that takes them from the lowliest brothels of Potosí to the highest echelons of the Spanish aristocracy.

©2022 Melissa Grey (P)2022 Recorded Books

outstandingly wrote

the narration is wonderful and it is in my new top 10 books! thanks for a wonderful book.

One of my favorite books

I love the accents, descriptions, and images this story paints! I do wish there were a bit more emotion behind the words themselves, just inflections. Truly an amazing story with genuinely great storytelling I’d love to hear more from these voices and author. Thank you!