 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book with a left-handed character.
The Countess Conspiracy, by Courtney Milan. This is a friends-to-lovers historical romance. Sebastian and his cousins were nicknamed "The Brothers Sinister" in school, because they were all left-handed. Sebastian is notorious for being a romantic rake, a religious skeptic, and a scientist who studies naughty things like plant and animal reproduction. He has a decent grasp of the science, but the discoveries he's published aren't really his. They were made by his best friend Violet, a widowed countess who can't get her work published under her own name. As is often true in Milan's books, Violet has a painful secret that makes her reluctant to start a romantic relationship. Sebastian is gentle and truly loving with her, recognizing when Violet isn't ready for sex, even when she's all but throwing herself at him. The author's note at the end is illuminating: the book was inspired by real-life women scholars and scientists who mostly had to settle for being thanked in the acknowledgements when their work was published by a husband or another man. This being a romance, Violet naturally gets a happier ending.
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