This is a collection by the Fated Mates Podcast
(https://fatedmates.net/getting-sprung)

Collected by Heather Varlow — Heather writes about morally gray, anti-Pinkerton private detectives in the Gilded Age. She also obsessively documents the use of scent in romance novels as a treat. She can be found at @deep.read.belle (yes, like the Neko Case song) on Instagram and Threads, and you can sign up for her newsletter at heathervarlow.com/newsletter.

“In which heroines and heroes bail the other out of jail, save each other from execution by the law, or mutually jailbreak in at least once memorable instance. Want to read a heroine bargain for the hero like he’s an old rug? This is your microtrope.”
— Heather Varlow
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