From the back of the book- What is a Victorian lady's formula for love? Mix one brilliant noblewoman and her enigmatic protection officer. Add in a measure of danger and attraction. Heat over the warmth of humor and friendship, and the result is more than simple chemistry—it's elemental.
Lady Violet Hughes is keeping secrets. First, she founded a clandestine sanctuary for England's most brilliant female scientists. Second, she is using her genius on a confidential mission for the Crown. But the biggest secret of all? Her feelings for protection officer Arthur Kneland.
Solitary and reserved, Arthur learned the hard way to put duty first. But the more time he spends in the company of Violet and the eccentric club members, the more his best intentions go up in flames. Literally.
When a shadowy threat infiltrates Violet's laboratories, endangering her life and her work, scientist and bodyguard will find all their theories put to the test—and learn that the most important discoveries are those of the heart.
Review- A mediocre historical romance that has such a promising setting. Violet is a woman who wants it all both passionate love and to use her brains but she feels that she cannot have both. Arthur is a man who just wants to go home again and refuses to deal with what’s in the past from shame. Together they could have a chance at both. This sounded so promising with a bodyguard love story, a personal weakness for me, but really is just fine. There are a number of sex scenes but I just skipped them, they did not add anything to the story for me. Violet is a passionate woman, who has been shamed for that passion, and Arthur does not shame her but praises it, so the sex scenes should have been emotional engaging and they weren’t. If you are hard up for a historical romance, then you might enjoy one but I found it just mediocre.
I give this book a Three out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.
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