Believe in Me (The Worthingtons Book 6)
Circa 1818: self-taught scholar Lady Augusta Vivers loves her family, but she is frustrated by their insistence that she marry a suitable man. So, she is forced to attend balls, routes, and soirees to discover said man. Augusta dreams of a university education in Italy, because no English institution of higher learning will accept a female.
Lord Phineas Carter-Woods travels to study the architecture of other lands, so he values his bachelorhood. Unfortunately, his brother has no heir, and that duty falls to Phinn. That means marriage, aka: no more travel for architectural studies. Reluctantly, he begins to attend balls, routes, and soirees to discover a suitable wife.
Once introduced, Phinn vows to marry Augusta, who is all he could envision in a wife. Augusta will only marry a man who understands her need for education and for love. How can these friends ever become man and wife?
This sweet tale touched a chord in me. As a Ph.D. candidate, I wonder what the world has lost because only half the population was permitted a formal education. This subject is rarely undertaken in a romance novel, though the novel’s ultimate reveal stretches the belief of those who read women’s history.
