A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)

by Deanna Raybourn

I took a sip of the tea, pleased to find it scalding hot and properly strong. I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.

It always seemed that we moved just as I had amassed a good collection—eggs, frogs, beetles. I was forever leaving behind something I loved.

“I have the merest embers of pride left, Miss Speedwell. I beg you let me warm myself upon them,”