Secret Courtship of an Athenian Bluestocking

In Athens, bluestocking Evangeline Darlington looks for her vanished uncle and the secret excavation that could prove a fabled civilization of elusive warriors truly existed.

A place among the Society of Antiquarians depends on that discovery, but the only antiquarian who can help her follow Uncle Charles’s trail is Sir Jonathan Hackberry, a man who may want the research for himself.

Someone in London has already died trying to steal it.

Jonathan’s genuine respect for Evangeline as a scholar wins her trust and persuades her she belongs, even as the spy who wants to go home begins to take her heart.

He would rather keep dirt on his hands than blood on his conscience, yet the Regent’s Consul will not free him from a deplorable assignment, and success means destroying the only woman who has ever truly seen him.