The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)

by Olivia Waite

By any reasonable metric, it was the wrong choice. She had her bags packed within the hour.

The inescapable truth: women could fall in love with other women.

She’d believed she could bear a widow’s loneliness more peacefully than the misery of a bad marriage. But that was like choosing whether hemlock or belladonna was the better poison. In the end, they both sapped the life from you.