An Unconventional Lady

Marry a man she detests, or lose the only home she has ever known.

Ella Wilde was never raised to be ordinary. As the daughter of the headmaster of Keatley Hall School for Young Men, she grew up surrounded by an education most girls were denied, and she dreams of opening a school for inquisitive, brilliant young women just like her. But Keatley Hall has no male heir. Unless Ella marries before her father dies, her beloved home passes to a distant cousin, and the suitor at hand is a man she detests.

Then her childhood friend Gabriel returns. Now a London solicitor, he has been hired to investigate Thomas Bauer, the phrenologist set to headline the upcoming symposium at the school. Ella invites Gabriel to Keatley Hall so he can pursue the truth without drawing suspicion, and the two make a formidable pair as they work to separate real science from confident fraud.

Set in 1820 between the English countryside and London, An Unconventional Lady weaves a childhood-friends Regency romance through a pseudoscience mystery, led by a charming, headstrong heroine and kept entirely clean and low-spice.

Some ladies follow convention. Ella Wilde follows the truth.