Four Corners of Heaven
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4.5 • 17 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Mr. Harrison Stafford, the future Baron Chelton, spent years in South America in search of a medical miracle drug. Now back in London, his once-promising research appears doomed. His benefactors are about to abandon their support and his family demands he leave science to devote himself to the duties of the barony. To save his work, he agrees to an unorthodox offer to work with a woman scientist. He vows to treat the lady as he would any other laboratory partner, which would be so much easier if he didn’t find his brilliant new colleague so beguiling.
For years, Miss Adelia Dawson has fought convention to study science in a man’s world. She dreams of being the first female medical student in England, but those doors will remain closed to her unless she can claim an undeniable success. Joining Mr. Stafford’s research endeavor is just the opportunity she needs. But when she catches a glimpse of his passionate nature under his cool exterior, she can’t help thinking of her new workfellow in a deeply personal way.
Harry and Adelia struggle to maintain their professional distance while their shared passion for their work draws them ever closer together. But when their research unravels, they could lose much more than their careers. They could lose their chance at love.
Customer Reviews
Great romance
Four Corners of Heaven is book five in The Harrow’s Finest Five series by Nancy Yeager. I have been reading through this series and have enjoyed each book. Even though it can be read as a stand-alone, I recommend reading the series in order. I liked the hero Harrison Stafford. A scientist at heart and a future Baron by birth, Stafford struggles to find his place in the world. The heroine Adelia Dawson is a woman longing for the freedom to be recognized as a legitimate scientist in a world that only recognizes her future breeding abilities. I enjoyed how Yeager infused actual history into her story. She mentioned Sophia Jex-Blake, one of the famous Edinburgh Seven women who attended Edinburgh’s School of Medicine under great controversy and risk. I liked the relationship between Stafford and Adelia, but I feel that it was a bit rushed. “When he’d kissed her before, she’d rationalized every revelation of joy with her understanding of biology demanding its due. But this time it was different. She no longer understood or thought or knew anything. She was a ball of primal need. The molten center of the earth. The churning core of a star.” Yeager has some very steamy sex scenes that I thought were well written. I am looking forward to the next book in this series.