Mapping the Wild

Samuel Millington lives his life by the compass, the sextant, and absolute geometric precision. As a meticulous cartographer for the Crown, the introverted surveyor views the world as a vast puzzle waiting to be measured and mapped-until the Admiralty foists a botanical assistant upon his Yorkshire expedition.

Lydia Brooking is fiercely independent, brilliant, and entirely ungovernable. Chafing against the rigid expectations of Regency society, she spends her days collecting rare alpine specimens and challenging every assumption Samuel holds about order and control.

Thrown together on a perilous survey through the untamed Dales, their academic rivalry ignites into electric friction. But when an unseasonal blizzard traps them in an isolated stone shelter, their intellectual armor shatters, forcing Samuel to realize that the most rewarding discoveries in life cannot be charted in advance. When a jealous rival attempts to steal Lydia's groundbreaking scientific discovery, Samuel must throw aside his rigid blueprints and risk everything to help her claim her rightful place-proving that love is the one variable that defies all calculation.