A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)

by Deanna Raybourn

I was not made for a life of ordinary pursuits, and it would take an extraordinary man to live with me on my terms.

I saw well enough what is under those clothes, Miss Speedwell. Permit me to observe that you are wasting an opportunity there.”

“I am scientist enough to believe that there is much we cannot explain and that it is arrogant to presume we know more than we do,” I replied.