The Bluestocking's Blunder
(2025)(The tenth book in the Scandalous Miss Brightwell series)
A novel by Beverley Oakley
When her cousin Viola Thorneybrook scandalized society by becoming an actress—only to somehow marry a duke through an absurd fan language scheme—Miss Catherine Thorneybrook decided there must be some logic to the madness.
As a serious scholar determined to improve her station through intellectual pursuits rather than marriage, Catherine sets out to document this peculiar method of communication. But her research leads her straight to the new vicar, Reverend James Blackwood, who seems to find her endless note-taking both fascinating and infuriating.
Reverend James Blackwood has enough to manage with his new parish and his deteriorating library of rare theological texts. The last thing he needs is to be drawn into the orbit of another Thorneybrook woman, especially after Viola's scandalous rise from actress to duchess set every tongue in the county wagging. Yet when he discovers Miss Thorneybrook in his library at midnight, pursuing research she refuses to explain, he finds her earnest quest for knowledge unexpectedly compelling.
As Catherine and James forge an unlikely alliance to preserve his precious books, their scholarly debates spark an attraction that threatens to derail her carefully planned path to academic achievement.
Matters only worsen when the infamous Brightwell sisters, Viola's dearest friends and self-appointed matchmakers, decide the vicar and the bluestocking are their next project. Now Catherine must choose between her ambitions and her heart—assuming she can survive the Brightwell sisters' well-meaning interference first.
Genre: Historical Romance
As a serious scholar determined to improve her station through intellectual pursuits rather than marriage, Catherine sets out to document this peculiar method of communication. But her research leads her straight to the new vicar, Reverend James Blackwood, who seems to find her endless note-taking both fascinating and infuriating.
Reverend James Blackwood has enough to manage with his new parish and his deteriorating library of rare theological texts. The last thing he needs is to be drawn into the orbit of another Thorneybrook woman, especially after Viola's scandalous rise from actress to duchess set every tongue in the county wagging. Yet when he discovers Miss Thorneybrook in his library at midnight, pursuing research she refuses to explain, he finds her earnest quest for knowledge unexpectedly compelling.
As Catherine and James forge an unlikely alliance to preserve his precious books, their scholarly debates spark an attraction that threatens to derail her carefully planned path to academic achievement.
Matters only worsen when the infamous Brightwell sisters, Viola's dearest friends and self-appointed matchmakers, decide the vicar and the bluestocking are their next project. Now Catherine must choose between her ambitions and her heart—assuming she can survive the Brightwell sisters' well-meaning interference first.
Genre: Historical Romance