Lady Liar (A Series of Senseless Complications #5)

She has her reasons for wishing for a Corinthian who would not know a book if it hit him over the head. He is a member of The Royal Society wishing to find his intellectual equal.

Lady Verity Nicolet, number five of the Duke of Pelham’s daughter’s, is poised to take her place in society. She’s also poised to carefully guard the secret she’s harbored all her life. She considers herself the stupidest of the Nicolets and, try as she might, she cannot read. Words, diabolical words, swim in front of her eyes and she’s never been able to make them settle.

Henry Foster, Baron Wembly, has spent the past few years happily engaged in his scientific research and communing with his fellow Royal Society members. However, he finds that when he goes home to Somerset alone, the days are long and the nights are longer. He is determined to wed, and he sets out to locate a baroness who is his intellectual equal. And perhaps she might be pretty, too.