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Juliana Telford, an eighteen‑year‑old young woman with a passion for ladybugs, is sent by her father to London for the season. In the bustling capital, she discovers a world far beyond solitary studies and domestic expectations. There, she meets the handsome Spencer Northam, who poses as a young gentleman of leisure but is in fact a spy. Their unlikely meeting sets the stage for romance, adventure, and the clash of scientific curiosity with espionage in the early nineteenth‑century British setting.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Cindy Anstey
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