A secret correspondence. An unexpected love. A devastating truth.

Lady Juliana Blackmore has no interest in sitting primly on the marriage mart. For over a year, she has exchanged theories on fossils with Marcus Pickford, an Oxford academic with whom she has fallen in love through his letters. If she were to marry him, she could fulfill her intellectual goals of becoming a leading authority on prehistory. There is a problem, however: Marcus thinks she is a man named “Julian.”

Mr. Benedict Fitzroy has never embraced responsibility. But when he inherits his cousin Marcus’s possessions, reading through the unfinished correspondence finally gives him something to aim for: to be worthy of “Julian’s” respect. And so he begins answering the letters in Marcus’s name. What begins as a harmless deception soon becomes the most important relationship of Benedict’s life.

Then they meet, and Benedict discovers “Julian’s” real identity.

Now he must decide whether to confess the truth and risk losing her—or keep the greatest secret of his life and find a way to make her fall in love with the real man behind the letters.

Tropes you'll enjoy:

• Mistaken identities
• Crossdressing heroine
• Slow burn
• Opposites attract
• Secret identities
• Bluestocking heroine
• Spirited heroine
• Reluctant heir
• Gentleman and a scholar
• Redeeming the disappointed heir

Westfield Pact Series

Book 1 - Only a Duke Will Do

Book 2 - The Scholar's Secret

Book 3 - To Love a Viscount