Verity Plum is the bisexual heroine from Cat Sebastian’s Regency Romance novel, A Duke in Disguise.
Verity is the extremely tired owner of a Radical bookshop in London. Having watched her father forgo his radical principles behind closed doors, and run her mother into the ground, Verity has sworn off marriage as it gives men too much power over their wives.
After an affair gone wrong, almost costing her a very important friendship in the process, it led her to swear off women as well. Verity is far too busy and tired trying to keep her politically active friend out of prison or worse, as well as keeping the bookshop financially above water, to even think about romance. It doesn’t help that she’s in love with her childhood best friend, however, or that she’s firmly repressing that out of fear of ruining that relationship as well.
Capable of keeping calm in highly dangerous situations but hot-headed enough to step between a large, violent aristocrat and the woman he’s trying to hurt, Verity is fierce, loyal and highly principled. In touch with her sexuality and with no respect for either slut-shaming or the Regency’s anti-obscenity laws, she’s also an enthusiastic pornographer, publishing women-friendly erotic fiction complete with obscene engravings — unwisely asking the man she’s trying desperately hard not to be in love with to produce them for her.
Verity’s bisexuality feels real and organic all the way through the book, even when she’s focused on one specific person and uninterested in anyone else.