Hester (Hetty) Hale is not like other girls of her age. She's already fallen in love and has no desire to make the rounds on the marriage mart. The problem is she's chosen a man of science. One her father would never consider a suitable match. There's another unsurmountable issue: the man acts as if she's invisible. Laurence Fortescue is not all he seems. On the surface, he's a lecturer at Oxford with a scientific mind. Hetty's father admires his...