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This HaBO comes from Emily, who wants to track down this historical romance:
The book I’m trying to find is n historical set in England – London mostly – I think it’s a Regency. It’s part of a series I’m pretty sure.
The heroine is the daughter of a professor/inventor/scholar of some sort and her mother’s dead. They live in Europe somewhere. Then her father’s killed and she hides until his attackers – who are after his work – leave, and she runs to London. She follows a note in the margin of her father’s books to a man who happens to be a single father in need of a tutor. Dresses as man, gets job. The kid and the other staff notice that she’s a woman, but not her employer. Meanwhile, her employer works for some government agency that was communicating with the heroine’s father; that agency is trying to locate the heroine after her father’s death…and everything eventually comes out.
I just read Laura Lee Guhrke’s Governess Gone Rogue thinking it was the book I’m looking for, but it’s not! Any insight into my mystery book?
There are a lot of romances where the heroine disguises herself to become a tutor. Who knows this particular one?
The Spy
by
Celeste Bradley
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I have no idea which book this is, but I’d really like o read it!
Once again, no idea who wrote it or what the name is, but I have just got to mention this, “her employer works for some government agency that was communicating with the heroine’s father; that agency is trying to locate the heroine after her father’s death.”
Exactly how suited is this man for government work of this nature is he is so unobservant?
How to school your scoundrel by Juliana Gray
I KNOW I’ve read this one, but I sure can’t remember the name of it.
I think that it’s actually How to Tame Your Duke from the same series that Joce mentioned.
It could be The Spy by Celeste Bradley. The heroine is the daughter of a mathematician, looking for someone to help find her father after he was abducted by French spies. She poses as a tutor to the hero’s ward. The hero is also a spy, looking for her father, thinking he is giving codes to the French spies. It gets complicated.
This is more of an aside, but has anyone else noticed that being the wife of an eccentric professor/inventor/scholar is often a death sentence? The daughters are always motherless. It’s amazing those eccentric sorts ever get laid.
I second The Spy by Celeste Bradley!
This is definitely The Spy by Celeste Bradley! One of my favorites!!