Ash and the Butterfly

 Ash and the Butterfly

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       December 13, 2024

 

Author  Lark Maitland

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 979-8990565432
Publisher:         Lark Maitland
Release Date:   November 2024  

   Website:   https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Secret-Lives-Regency-Ladies/dp/B0DKC2BNV9

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The Secret Lives of Regency Ladies series

As Regency Romances go, Ash and Butterfly has a little bit of everything to build an entertaining and enjoyable romp through Regency England in 1822, when women were expected to be seen and very little else.

Grace Chetwood and Luke Ashburton have met before with a rather unhappy ending. She is a talented Mathematician, he is a Botanist and Scientist. Both are looking forward to the opening of the new Museum of their friend Bexley, Charles Calthorpe, Earl of Bexley, a man noted for his scientific expeditions and expertise in life sciences.

The last thing Luke had expected when he reached Estate to be greeted with the new building on fire, his friend Bexley dead and Denton, Philip Denton long-time friend of Bexley’s, covered in soot, with a vacant look on his face.

As if the tragedy was not bad enough they discover that what has managed to be saved means little, as Bexley had all the descriptions of the specimens in his notebooks; they are all in a carefully created mathematical code which none of the men can break.

They decide to ask for help by contacting Grace Calthorpe, who is more than happy to remove to Bexley Estate to get away from a somewhat disastrous situation created by her innate curiosity.

When Luke realises he is going to have to work with Grace, a woman he admits intrigues him the sparks fly, the temperature rises and the mad dash to try and solve the complex code reaches exhausting levels, both he and Grace have to resolve the issue of their ever increasing attraction to each other.

Ash and The Butterfly is a modern take on Regency Romance spun with wit, charm and enthusiasm, with a cast of characters that are each in their own right, absolutely realistic and entertaining.

Fiction, Historical, Romance