A Perfect Equation

As interim head of Athena’s Retreat, a secret society for female scholars, mathematician Letitia Henley has no time for love. Nor does she have any patience for the man appointed to assist her, the haughty Viscount Greycliff. Greycliff is equally averse to aiding Letitia, who was formerly the subject of a ruinous scandal, and whose short stature belies her unending obstinacy. When they are forced to work together and protect the Retreat and its eccentric, but endearing, members, they realize that their perceptions of each other were flawed, and that, where love is concerned, the whole is sometimes more than the sum of its parts. Everett’s second installment in the “Secret Scientists of London” series is just as intelligent and entertaining as the first. Though the physical relationship builds somewhat slowly, it is all the more gratifying when it reaches the steamy summit. Narrator Elizabeth Jasicki has a mature voice that is well suited to the cast of learned ladies and gives a unique expression to each character.