Lord Arthur Edington is the most intelligent man in England and the worst at being a gentleman. At 28, he’d rather debate Newtonian physics than waltz with debutantes. His estate, Edington Manor, is less a symbol of aristocratic grace and more a labyrinth of forgotten books, half-built contraptions, and staff who’ve given up on decorum. But when his grandmother, the indomitable Duchess of Penhaligon, threatens to cut him off unless he marries within the year, Arthur is thrust into the glittering, gossip-fueled world of Regency London. There, he meets Lady Isabella Ashton—a woman as sharp as she is kind—who sees through his awkwardness to the heart beneath. As sabotage erupts at home and society schemes against them, Arthur must choose: preserve his family’s dignity or risk everything for a love too real to hide.