Confessions of the Fox

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.

Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all.

Reader Fit
For readers who enjoy ambitious literary fiction combining queer and trans perspectives, historical storytelling, crime, romance, metafiction, and political resistance.

Why We Carry It
Rosenberg reimagines eighteenth-century London through queer and trans perspectives, using history and metafiction to challenge assumptions about gender, identity, whose stories survive, and who gets to tell them.