A Perfect Equation is the second book in Elizabeth Everett's The Secret Scientists of London series, following the absolutely splendid A Lady's Formula for Love. This is being released on February 15th so you have plenty of time to read the first before devouring the second. Trust me. You'll want to read them both ... and then you'll be watching for news of the release of A Love By Design.
The book opens with Letitia (Letty) Fenley and her brother Sam assisting a young female shopworker who is being harassed by the Guardians of Domesticity -- a group eager to reinstate good old English values by getting women back where they belong -- basically, barefoot and pregnant. When things appear to be approaching violence, Lord William Hughes, the Viscount Greycliff (Grey) and his friend George Willis, Earl Grantham intervene.
Grey is probably the last person in the world Letty would want saving the day. Six years prior Letty found herself involved in a scandal that ruined her reputation and broke her heart. Grey took the other party's side.
They're rather like oil and water ... or, more accurately, sugar and saltpeter. If only he wasn't so seemingly perfect ... and she didn't smell like cake ... and they weren't to be thrust together to run Athena's Retreat while Violet and Arthur are on leave in Yorkshire.
There is so much to love about this series and this installment. We get to watch Grey and Letty overcome obstacles and misconceptions about each other and themselves. We get plenty of humorous bits, just the right amount of steamy bits, the joys of blowing things up ... and a hedgehog. We also get to know some of the other members of Athena's Retreat a bit more, fall in love with Letty's brother (please let us have more Sam!), fall deeper in love with Grantham (hurry up, book 3!)... and become more than a bit obsessed with The Perils of Miss Cordelia Braveheart and the Castle of Doom. I need this to be an actual thing to stay up late reading. I'm willing to beg.
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