Sometimes there's a fine line between assessing the competition and consorting with the enemy...
Thanks to an imprudent wager made by his younger brother, Edward Astley has to win a classical translation contest being hosted by Oxford University. This means he'll have to beat the latest star on the literary scene, the anonymous translator whose rendition of On the Sublime is taking Britain by storm. He's supposed to be studying, but all he can seem to think about is Elissa St. Cyr, the redheaded daughter of his former tutor, who's every bit as brainy as she is delectable.
Elissa has problems of her own. With her father's health failing, she'll soon need to support her mother and sisters through her translation work. And that means she needs to win the Oxford contest, so she can secure the one thing she has never had the opportunity to earn: an academic credential.
To make matters worse, she managed to get stuck in the middle of a pond during a thunderstorm, and the person who happened along to rescue her, witnessing her in the most humiliating moment of her remarkably humiliating life, was her ultimate beau idéal, the brilliant Edward Astley. Now Elissa keeps bumping into Edward everywhere she goes. Which would normally be wonderful ...
... except she's worried he's going to figure out that she is the anonymous translator everyone is talking about.
Please note that the heat level is red hot!
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Two scholars. One contest. Only one can be the winner …
Edward Astley, Viscount Fauconbridge, has to win the classical translation contest being held at Oxford in two weeks. Literally, he has to, because his little brother, Harrington, got drunk and bet fifteen thousand pounds that he would, and their father will cut Harrington off if he finds out about his imprudent wager. Edward would never let his brother down, but he cannot possibly win this stupid contest. Not only will he be competing against fifty other scholars, but one of them is the latest star on the literary scene, the anonymous translator whose rendition of On the Sublime is taking Britain by storm. Meanwhile Edward hasn't opened a Greek lexicon in years, because he secretly hates classical poetry following his grueling years at Cambridge.
Now he's supposed to be studying, but all he can seem to think about is Elissa St. Cyr, the redheaded daughter of his former tutor, who's every bit as brainy as she is delectable.
Elissa St. Cyr has problems of her own. She has to win that classical poetry contest, too. It's her only chance to earn an academic credential so she'll be taken seriously as a scholar. And with her father's health failing, Elissa, her mother, and her three sisters will be left destitute unless Elissa can support them through her translation work.
To make matters worse, she managed to get stuck in the middle of a pond during a thunderstorm, and the person who happened along to rescue her, witnessing her in the most humiliating moment of her remarkably humiliating life, was her ultimate beau idéal, the brilliant Edward Astley. Now Elissa keeps bumping into Edward everywhere she goes. Which would normally be wonderful …
… except she's worried he's going to figure out that she is the anonymous translator everyone is talking about.
Only one of them can win. Will love be the loser? Find out in The Sea Siren of Broadwater Bottom!
Please note that the heat level is red hot!