Author: Olivia Waite
Published: June 2019
Pages: 336
Lucy is an astronomer whose father just passed and whose lover, Priscilla, just married a man whom she does not love. Catherine St Day is the widower of an esteemed (and privately unkind) cosmologist. When Lucy reads a posting from the Countess of Moth herself for a live-in interpreter of her late spouse’s revolutionary French papers, she leaves for London at once. Catherine awaits a lonesome, dreary widowhood, free at last from misuse from her husband, the Count, and from her obligation to bring his legacy as stargazer to realization. She gathered she would pass off the translation and have no more to do with it. Instead, she meets a young woman at her door, imploring Catherine to let her do the work, and she invites her in, amused. Lucy spends her days transposing the sophisticated pages, and her evenings falling in love with her employer. But are Lucy and Catherine daring enough to be together? Or is their love meteoric—burning brilliant but fast like the stellar bodies they study?
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