The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

Fleeing the sight of her former lover's wedding, self-taught astronomer Lucy Muchelney answers a letter from Catherine St Day, the widowed Countess of Moth, who needs someone to translate an important French astronomy text into English. Catherine only wants to finish her late husband's scientific project and settle into a quiet widowhood, but the brilliant young woman who turns up at her London home begging for the work changes everything. As Lucy labors over the translation by day, the two women fall for each other, even as sabotage and old wounds threaten what they are building. Kirkus called this first Feminine Pursuits novel a charming, quietly subversive Regency romance about women's overlooked intellectual work.