He fell in love with her mind before he knew her name...For eight months, Fitzwilliam Darcy has been corresponding with E. Bennet, the Linnaean Geographical Society's most talented field surveyor. The letters are professional, precise, and increasingly the most interesting part of his week. When he arrives at the Society's Portsmouth office a day early, he finds not the young gentleman he expected but Elizabeth Bennet, ink-stained, entirely composed, and very much a woman in a role the Society does not officially permit women to hold.He has two options, report her or let her risk her standing with her deception. Or he can offer her a third: a marriage of convenience that keeps her position, protects his patronage, and requires them to correspond from opposite ends of England while she maps the coastline and he tries to make sense of why her letters about tidal variations have become the thing he looks forward to most.The surveys are excellent. The letters are something else entirely.The Cartographer's Wife is slow-burn epistolary romance for readers who believe the most intimate thing two people can do is pay close attention to each other, and that a letter, written honestly enough, is its own kind of map.
