Ash and the Butterfly
by Lark Maitland
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Pub Date 22 Nov 2024 | Archive Date 30 Apr 2025
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Description
A fiery beginning. A coded mystery. A passion that burns.
When scientist Luke Ashburton arrives to open the Earl of Bexley’s new museum, the last thing he expects to find is the building on fire.
Luke is tasked with overseeing its salvage, but needs the late earl’s journals… which are written in code. Luckily, a brilliant mathematician can help. Unfortunately, she is Grace Chetwood, a beautiful whirlwind Luke encountered at a ball years ago. The night began with attraction… and ended with a slap to the face.
Cracking the cipher is a welcome reprieve from Grace’s messy life in London… but means working with Luke, a man she ardently wishes to hurl into the sea. Also stressful? The fact that she cannot stop thinking about him.
Over a week of long days and sleepless nights, Grace and Luke discover an uncommon ability to infuriate one another. But as hotter passions emerge, their connection grows deeper and more complicated than either could ever have imagined….
This steamy, standalone, Regency-era historical romance is the second in The Secret Lives of Regency Ladies series. You do not need to have read the previous book to enjoy this one.
Advance Praise
Ash and the Butterfly is a current finalist in the Regency Romance category of the 2024 RWA Hearts Through History Romance Through the Ages contest.
Ash and the Butterfly is a current finalist in the Regency Romance category of the 2024 RWA Hearts Through History Romance Through the Ages contest.
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9798990565425 |
PRICE | US$5.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 247 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
I requested this ARC on a whim, having just read the author’s novella which a loosely-connected prequel to this, and I’m so glad I did because it’s the most refreshing historical romance I’ve read in ages. The central premise, of mathematician Grace attempting to decode the information hidden in her deceased friend’s journals, has parallels in several of the characters who are hiding facets of their true selves because of society’s expectations or just through fear of being vulnerable. I liked how Grace is depicted as multi-dimensional: highly intelligent and openly emotional and understanding the practicalities of fitting into the world she’s been born into. Her relationship with Luke has sparks from the outset and develops with wit and spice and then emotion that’s downright heart-wrenching. The writing manages to evoke all the feelings throughout: there’s a scene near the end which made me snort-laugh and then almost tear up within a page, and by that time I was fully at the ‘unable to put this down’ stage. My only disappointment is that the author doesn’t (yet) have anything else for me to devour - but I will definitely be looking out for the next one.