A Bluestocking for Octavias
(2026)(The third book in the Wyntercrest series)
A novel by Michelle Angus
Five lessons. One forbidden outcome.
Cecilia Woods has no intention of marrying. But after one accidental kiss with her oldest friend, she cannot help wondering whether she kissed him properly. She is a bluestocking, after all, and ignorance simply will not do—even when the subject is kissing.
Her solution is simple: conduct research for The Practical Guide to the Art of Kissing and Flirtation. All she needs is a teacher.
Octavias Wynters is charming, handsome, incorrigible, and far too practiced at making women lose their senses. A perfect candidate for instructing her.
Tav ought to refuse her request. Cecilia is relentlessly curious and sees through his finest performances. And for all his experience, he has yet to forget the one kiss she seems determined to improve upon. The very kiss that has ruined him for anyone else. But like the dolt he is, he agrees—with a few rules of his own. The most important? She must not fall in love with him.
Between midnight lessons and putting those lessons to use, Cecilia begins to want something no practical guide can teach her. And Tav discovers that being wanted for his charm is nothing compared to being loved by the woman who knows what lies beneath it.
‘Let me spend the rest of my life being the man you already know me to be, and choosing you every single day.’
Genre: Historical
Cecilia Woods has no intention of marrying. But after one accidental kiss with her oldest friend, she cannot help wondering whether she kissed him properly. She is a bluestocking, after all, and ignorance simply will not do—even when the subject is kissing.
Her solution is simple: conduct research for The Practical Guide to the Art of Kissing and Flirtation. All she needs is a teacher.
Octavias Wynters is charming, handsome, incorrigible, and far too practiced at making women lose their senses. A perfect candidate for instructing her.
Tav ought to refuse her request. Cecilia is relentlessly curious and sees through his finest performances. And for all his experience, he has yet to forget the one kiss she seems determined to improve upon. The very kiss that has ruined him for anyone else. But like the dolt he is, he agrees—with a few rules of his own. The most important? She must not fall in love with him.
Between midnight lessons and putting those lessons to use, Cecilia begins to want something no practical guide can teach her. And Tav discovers that being wanted for his charm is nothing compared to being loved by the woman who knows what lies beneath it.
‘Let me spend the rest of my life being the man you already know me to be, and choosing you every single day.’
Genre: Historical