Book Details
Title: The Baron and the Lady Chemist
Series: The Grantham Girls #2
Author: Alissa Baxter
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Release Date: August 3, 2023
Genre: Regency Romance (Sweet/Clean)
****I received a complimentary book from publishers, publicists, NetGalley, book tours, and or authors. A review was not required and all opinions and ideas expressed are my own.****
Book Summary
Their chemistry creates a chain reaction . . . but will love be the final result?
Dorothea Grantham has always been fascinated by chemistry and spends most days conducting experiments in her laboratory at Grantham Place, staining silk with gold, silver, and other metals using chemical processes.
Thea embroiders the beautiful gold and silver silk shawls she creates and enjoys wearing them, but her grandmother, Lady Longmore, advises her not to reveal to anyone outside the family circle that she has created the fashion items herself, concerned her granddaughter might be seen as an oddity.
When Thea enters Society, her shawls attract a great deal of attention and become the talk of the town. James, Lord Castleroy, takes a particular interest in her work, having inherited a share in his grandfather’s silk mill in Macclesfield.
Eager to invest in the ailing silk industry, the baron studies Miss Grantham’s silks with an admiring—and increasingly suspicious—eye, believing the fabrics to be smuggled imported silk. As he spends more time with the enterprising young lady, however, his interest in her quickly extends beyond his business affairs to engulf his guarded heart.
But Lord Castleroy isn’t the only person in London interested in Thea’s exquisite creations. And when a silken web of intrigue entangles her in real danger, Thea must trust the devotion of a man she never expected—or intended—to fall in love with.
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Note: This series is part of Dragonblade's Sweet Dreams line, so this is a sweet, wholesome Historical Romance where passion beyond the bedroom door is left to the reader’s imagination.
My Review
I recently read the first book in the Grantham Girls series and loved it. I was so excited to read the next book. The books are about three sisters. I just found out that a third book will be coming out with the third sister's story. Yay!
The sister that is highlighted in this book is Dorothea or Thea for short. She is very intelligent, loves chemistry, and wears spectacles. She feels she is no beauty and truly only cares about her experiments and the silk shawls she stains and embroiders. I really loved Thea and felt for her as readers find out why she doesn't want to get involved with anyone because of her mother's death.
Lord James Castleroy comes along and meets Thea at a very trying and embarrassing moment. From the start, you could see how fascinated he was with Thea because she is nothing like the other young ladies in Society. He tried so hard to break the hard shell that is wrapped around Thea. James truly has the patience of an angel. I actually really loved the way their relationship developed. Both Thea and James had things they needed to work through in their lives before they opened up to one another.
This Regency Romance is full of intrigue, poetry, mystery, humor, sadness, and of course sweet, slow-burn romance. There were interesting things to learn about the silk industry at this time period. I love a novel that gives so much variety to readers. The Baron and the Lady Chemist will keep you entertained and captivated for many hours.
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****Meet Author Alissa Baxter****
Alissa Baxter wrote her first Regency romance during her long university holidays. After travelling the world, she settled down to write her second Regency novel, which was inspired by her time living on a country estate in England. Alissa then published two chick lit novels before returning to her favourite era with her Linfield Ladies Series, a trio of Regency romances that feature women in trend-setting roles who fall in love with men who embrace their trailblazing ways... at least eventually. Her new Dragonblade trilogy, The Grantham Girls, continues this inspiring theme.
Alissa currently lives in Johannesburg with her husband and two sons.
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