Beakers and ball gowns don’t mix. 

 

So when lady chemist and avowed spinster, Miss Liliana Claremont, receives a coveted invitation to the Earl of Stratford’s house party, no one expects her to accept.  After all, it’s well known that Lord Geoffrey Wentworth, a rising political star, is in need of a suitable bride, and it’s assumed he will choose one from the select group of attendees.

 

Yet Liliana has no desire to lure the rich and powerful earl into marriage.  She’s come to Somerton Park for one reason—to uncover what the Wentworths had to do with the murder of her father.  She intends to find justice, even if she has to ruin Stratford to do it.

 

To get the evidence she needs, Liliana intends to keep her enemy close, though romance is not part of her formula. But it only takes one kiss to start a reaction she can’t control…