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Botany with the Baron
(2026)(The fifth book in the Ashford Chronicles series)
A novel by Siobhan Lynch
The Ashford Chronicles, Book 5
She built her reputation on a carefully guarded secret. He's been in love with her since she demolished his footnotes.
Lady Margaret Ashford has no intention of marrying. As one of England's most promising botanists — publishing under the nom de plume "M. Ashford" — she has spent years building something that is entirely, unapologetically hers. When Lord Edmund Wentworth, Baron Fenhurst, arrives to discuss ferns, she expects a tedious afternoon of botanical pedantry. Instead, she finds an intellectual equal whose passion for plants rivals her own and whose infuriating habit of being right about half the things they argue about is, she will not admit, one of the more pleasant developments of recent memory.
Their summer partnership should have remained purely professional. Seventeen Thursdays of field expeditions, distribution maps, and arguments about classification systems say otherwise.
When proximity becomes something neither of them has a professional framework to organise, Margaret faces an impossible choice: reveal her identity as M. Ashford and risk her credibility, or continue the deception and betray everything she believes in. Edmund, who has loved her since she cited three sources he hadn't considered and looked unguardedly delighted when he admitted she was right, knows better than to push a woman who values her independence above everything. He will wait. He is very good at waiting.
He is slightly less good at watching her wage war against a world that refuses to take female botanists seriously, without saying something inadvisable.
In a world that demands women choose between their minds and their hearts, Margaret and Edmund will prove that the rarest specimens are those who refuse to be categorised.
Book 5 of The Ashford Chronicles — the series following the Ashford family through love, scandal, and an alarming number of compromising situations. Contains tender love scenes.
Genre: Historical Romance
She built her reputation on a carefully guarded secret. He's been in love with her since she demolished his footnotes.
Lady Margaret Ashford has no intention of marrying. As one of England's most promising botanists — publishing under the nom de plume "M. Ashford" — she has spent years building something that is entirely, unapologetically hers. When Lord Edmund Wentworth, Baron Fenhurst, arrives to discuss ferns, she expects a tedious afternoon of botanical pedantry. Instead, she finds an intellectual equal whose passion for plants rivals her own and whose infuriating habit of being right about half the things they argue about is, she will not admit, one of the more pleasant developments of recent memory.
Their summer partnership should have remained purely professional. Seventeen Thursdays of field expeditions, distribution maps, and arguments about classification systems say otherwise.
When proximity becomes something neither of them has a professional framework to organise, Margaret faces an impossible choice: reveal her identity as M. Ashford and risk her credibility, or continue the deception and betray everything she believes in. Edmund, who has loved her since she cited three sources he hadn't considered and looked unguardedly delighted when he admitted she was right, knows better than to push a woman who values her independence above everything. He will wait. He is very good at waiting.
He is slightly less good at watching her wage war against a world that refuses to take female botanists seriously, without saying something inadvisable.
In a world that demands women choose between their minds and their hearts, Margaret and Edmund will prove that the rarest specimens are those who refuse to be categorised.
Book 5 of The Ashford Chronicles — the series following the Ashford family through love, scandal, and an alarming number of compromising situations. Contains tender love scenes.
Genre: Historical Romance
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