Spinning Our Dreams is new novella (part of the Scandalous Daughters of Duke Street collab) out February 4, 2025. 

Spencer is the son of a baron and a tutor at Cambridge. Faith is a servant and part time student at Cambridge working for admittance to one of the women’s colleges. 

He’s been pining for YEARS. He’s a keepsakes guy, memories and a pencil. She can’t figure him out but she’s intrigued. When Spencer gets the opportunity to help her with a scholarship application he jumps at it. As they work together, chat, laugh, debate, eat, and flirt, Faith finally gets the chance to know Spencer. And she likes him, a lot. But, relationships for women students are ruinous, tutors can’t marry, and there’s a band of private enforcement officers and a few Cambridge leaders making life nearly impossible for young women in town. While Spencer and Faith take the next (romantic, sexy, and sweet) steps in their courtship, they must battle for her dreams of education and against misogynists, and manage their mutual inability to stay away from each other. 

The breadth of of issues Knight addresses: sexism; class differences; contraception; careers; fairness in education; sex work; police and prison reform; grief; loss; abandonment; and more- without overwhelming what is ultimately a quick (short and the bulk of the book happens in less than a week) gentle, cozy, and very happy love story- is impressive.

Thanks to Knight for an #ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.