Ada's Engine Room
In the fitting rooms and workshops of Victorian London, seamstress Clara hides gear ratios in the margins of lace invoices while machinist Edmund races to demonstrate a difference engine that may save his reputation. When Clara's anonymous corrections save his model from failure, the two strike a secret bargain that quickly becomes something more dangerous: a shared invention, a public salon challenge from Ada Lovelace, and a choice between safety and credit that neither can make alone. A slow-burn historical romance of mathematics, class tension, and the courage to be seen, Ada's Engine Room delivers a complete HEA built on intellectual partnership and the radical act of claiming each other in public. Free sample available.
About the story
In the fitting rooms and workshops of Victorian London, seamstress Clara hides gear ratios in the margins of lace invoices while machinist Edmund races to demonstrate a difference engine that may save his reputation. When Clara's anonymous corrections save his model from failure, the two strike a secret bargain that quickly becomes something more dangerous: a shared invention, a public salon challenge from Ada Lovelace, and a choice between safety and credit that neither can make alone. A slow-burn historical romance of mathematics, class tension, and the courage to be seen, Ada's Engine Room delivers a complete HEA built on intellectual partnership and the radical act of claiming each other in public.
Plan your listen
By Honey Books. Listed listening length: 53 minutes. Category: Historical Romance. Story dynamics: Opposites Attract, Workplace / Boss-Employee, Slow Burn, Mentor / Apprentice.
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