When pamphlets were podcasts...

Leaving a legacy, ageing Darcy Blaze writes a series of novels based on his famous Scandal Gallery pamphlets, each volume chronicling seven turbulent years.

Primarily for women, Darcy's life's work follows the daughters, wives and mistresses whose lives and desires are shaped by the ambitions and indiscretions of the age's most powerful and salacious men.

Woven through their stories is former Royal Marine, Admiralty spy and notorious ladies' man Major Miles Vane, Darcy's espionage conduit between London and Paris during the age of revolution, when the ambitions of one dangerous man threatens the world.

From Moscow to New York, the series ranges across continents with a torrent of intrigue, romance, deceit and debauchery flowing through palaces and brothels in the steamy sewers of history.

London's Somerset House is central, home to both the Navy Board—long notorious for patronage and corruption—and the Royal Academy, whose Summer Exhibition draws the fashionable world, much as the Salon Carré at the Louvre captivates Paris. Between power and celebrity, politics and art, Darcy Blaze finds his stories.

History remembers emperors, generals, admirals and kings.

Darcy Blaze remembers the women surviving the follies of men.