The Bluestocking He Married

Amelia Sedgwick has published two volumes of botany under a man's name, and she has no intention of confessing to it. Then a rival naturalist accuses the author of fraud and demands the manuscript be produced in person, and her ten years of quiet work are about to become a very public scandal. The Earl of Danforth is a careful, courteous man who reads Greek, keeps pigeons and has never done anything reckless in his life — until he offers to become her nominal fiancé. It is a business arrangement. It is meant to last one Season. Between lecture rooms, herbariums and a rain-soaked trip to Kew that neither of them will ever fully live down, the arrangement stops behaving itself. And when the accuser steals her specimens and passes them off as his own, George Danforth discovers that he is willing to make a scene in front of the Royal Society for a woman he was only ever meant to escort. A warm, funny Regency romance for anyone who has ever been overlooked at the front of a lecture room.