A duke's well-ordered world is turned upside down when a female
inventor sends his heart soaring in this Regency romance by a New York
Times-bestselling author.
Merlin Lambourne has invented the "speaking box"--a sort of
telephone--which is so valuable that Napoleon has killed for it. Sent by
the crown to bring both inventor and invention to safety, Ransom
Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is shocked to learn Mr. Lambourne is a Miss.
Perhaps more shocking, however, are his feelings for the eccentric
genius. She is everything he doesn't like: incapable of following
orders, unaware of conventional etiquette, preoccupied, disorganized,
and unkempt. Yet she beguiles him. One of the most ingenious inventors
in England, she is also one of the country's greatest hopes in the
defense against the power mad Napoleon Bonaparte. Now, if he could just
get her mind out of the clouds and convince her to marry him . . .
Merlin is not absentminded, it's just that she only seems to be able to
pay attention to one thing at a time. And maybe she does take everything
people say literally, but people ought to say what they mean. Now this
Ransom Falconer wants her to forget her current interest in flying
machines and focus on the speaking box she's lost interest in finishing.
It's quite disconcerting. In fact, everything about him is
disconcerting; in her isolated life Merlin has never met anyone who
affects her quite like Ransom does.
With her trademark blend of heartwarming characters and a hilarious
conflict, Midsummer Moon is yet another winner from the author of
Flowers from the Storm, praised by Lisa Kleypas as "the gold standard
in historical romance."
