The Bluestocking’s Secret Obsession

She loved a man she could never have. She never saw the one who was writing to her.

Sarah Cranshaw has never been like other young ladies. While her neighbours gossip over teacups, she’s memorising train timetables and losing herself in the stars through her telescope. The village has a name for women like her, bluestocking, and Sarah wears it without complaint. Her only secret is a more tender one: a years-long, hopeless obsession with the charming, unattainable Mr Templeton. She knows nothing will ever come of it. She simply can’t seem to stop.

Then Benjamin Stanton arrives in England, and an unlikely friendship is born, one that deepens into a years-long written correspondence. Across an ocean and the silence of war, their letters become something rare and precious, filled with the kind of intimate secrets neither could share with anyone else. Something neither of them has ever dared to name.

But when Benjamin returns from war, broken by what he has witnessed, a single letter from Sarah pierces his heart. Because Mr Templeton has finally begun to notice her. It is then that Benjamin realises a truth he has hidden from himself all these years: Sarah is destined to marry no one but himself.

Will he be in time?

The Bluestocking’s Secret Obsession is the third novel in The Stanton Legacy. Each book features its own hero, heroine and happily ever after, but the series is best enjoyed in order. It’s a slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance set in Victorian England and Civil War-era America, with a spicy finale.