Lady Sunshine and the Major
(2027)(The first book in the Regency Heroines Of Stem series)
A novel by Anna Valleria
A marriage of convenience. Her brother’s grumpy best friend. And a secret workshop where two broken people engineer a second chance at life…
Society views Iris Culliver as nothing short of a walking scandal: an illegitimate, half-foreign daughter exiled to a quiet country estate, consumed by a strange fascination with mechanics and anatomical sketches. When a single, desperate bid for romance leaves her pregnant and cast aside, ruin seems certain.
Until her brother’s stoic best friend steps between her and disgrace.
Major Quintus Kendall is a hardened soldier who looks like a Viking and speaks in scowls. But for five grueling years on the Continent, he survived the horrors of war by carrying a secret talisman: a single sunflower petal pressed by Iris, the girl he has always quietly adored. Returning from Waterloo with a maimed hand and an empty future, Quint acts quickly to save her, offering his name in a marriage of convenience.
Under the roof of his London townhouse, their childhood bickering softens into something far more dangerous. Behind closed doors, Iris’s brilliant mind and Quint’s craftsman hands collide to build pioneering prosthetic limbs for wounded veterans. But as late nights in the workshop ignite a scorching, unexpected passion, long-buried secrets regarding Iris’s true father come to light, and fear threatens to shatter the fragile sanctuary they’ve built together.
Now, the gruff major must fight the fiercest battle of his life: convincing his "Lady Sunshine" that he didn't marry her out of duty. He’ll burn down London before he ever lets her go.
Lady Sunshine and the Major is an emotional Regency romance featuring a protective wounded warrior and a brilliant STEM heroine in a marriage of convenience.
Genre: Historical Romance
Society views Iris Culliver as nothing short of a walking scandal: an illegitimate, half-foreign daughter exiled to a quiet country estate, consumed by a strange fascination with mechanics and anatomical sketches. When a single, desperate bid for romance leaves her pregnant and cast aside, ruin seems certain.
Until her brother’s stoic best friend steps between her and disgrace.
Major Quintus Kendall is a hardened soldier who looks like a Viking and speaks in scowls. But for five grueling years on the Continent, he survived the horrors of war by carrying a secret talisman: a single sunflower petal pressed by Iris, the girl he has always quietly adored. Returning from Waterloo with a maimed hand and an empty future, Quint acts quickly to save her, offering his name in a marriage of convenience.
Under the roof of his London townhouse, their childhood bickering softens into something far more dangerous. Behind closed doors, Iris’s brilliant mind and Quint’s craftsman hands collide to build pioneering prosthetic limbs for wounded veterans. But as late nights in the workshop ignite a scorching, unexpected passion, long-buried secrets regarding Iris’s true father come to light, and fear threatens to shatter the fragile sanctuary they’ve built together.
Now, the gruff major must fight the fiercest battle of his life: convincing his "Lady Sunshine" that he didn't marry her out of duty. He’ll burn down London before he ever lets her go.
Lady Sunshine and the Major is an emotional Regency romance featuring a protective wounded warrior and a brilliant STEM heroine in a marriage of convenience.
Genre: Historical Romance