Not to Be Opened

di Maddie Piper (Autore)

Maddie Piper, 2026

A scrap of ancient verse could save her family's home. The man who must authenticate it could overturn every plan she has made for her heart. Miss Philippa Hensleigh reads Greek better than half of Oxford, teaches Latin to merchants' sons, and has no intention of marrying. She has watched too many clever women surrender their ambitions at the altar. She means to keep hers. Then a crate of books arrives from her father's late tutor. Hidden inside is a fragment of papyrus that may contain lost lines of Sappho. If genuine, it is worth fifteen hundred pounds—enough to clear half the debt on The Quill, her family's circulating library and home. Unfortunately, the one man qualified to judge it is the most disliked peer in Somerset. The Earl of Wraxall is a brilliant scholar, an austere widower, and a father with a small daughter. Bath says he broke his late wife's heart. What Philippa does not know is that he also wrote the anonymous review dismissing her family's cherished advice sheet as "the bluestocking's tract." She would have a few words for him about that. For now, they have quite enough to quarrel over in Greek. Across her father's green-baize table, an examination becomes a battle of scholarship and stubbornness. Philippa is determined to defend the fragment. Wraxall proves infuriatingly difficult to impress—and increasingly difficult to dismiss. Then there is his nine-year-old daughter, forbidden to learn the alphabet. And a clue to a joke that has waited fifty years for someone clever enough to understand it. With her family's future resting on a few ancient lines, Philippa must discover what she can trust: the papyrus, the rumors, or the man whose company she has begun to seek. She has always known what marriage must never cost her. Now she must decide what she would ask of a man she could love. Not to Be Opened is Book Six of The Ladies of the Lion's Mouth series and a complete winter romance in its own right—a witty, tender story of scholarly rivals, fathers and daughters, and a heroine determined to marry only on her own terms. A clean and wholesome Regency romance with a gentle mystery, kisses only, no explicit content, no profanity, and a happy ending guaranteed.

• Autore: Maddie Piper
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Maddie Piper
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237732351