Elizabeth Everett

Athena's Retreat is a Victorian club in London where women run experiments in chemistry, mathematics and engineering behind the front of a respectable ladies' society, and it serves as the hinge of Elizabeth Everett's Secret Scientists of London novels. A Lady's Formula for Love opens the sequence with Lady Violet Hughes, who founded the place, and Arthur Kneland, the bodyguard hired to keep her alive. A Perfect Equation turns to the mathematician Letitia Fenley and Lord Greycliff, and A Love by Design to the widowed Margaret Gault, who is setting up an engineering firm of her own. Everett is an American writer published by Berkley. She lives in upstate New York and writes essays on feminist romance alongside the fiction.