Her Name Across the Map

Lady Hester Calderwyn has spent more than twenty years mastering the art of quiet influence.Behind the doors of the prestigious Crown Meridian Society, she has preserved the evidence of women whose maps, calculations, translations, and discoveries were published beneath men's names. But when the Society's anniversary gala is attacked, its hidden Office of Revisions is burned and the Copperplate Register containing that evidence is stolen.The man who arrives with the warning is the one Hester never expected to see again.Sir Evander Sloane was once her fellow surveyor, her lover, and the man she believed had surrendered their greatest discovery to the government. He now carries proof that the disputed border they mapped in their youth is about to be falsified again—placing villages, mineral-rich land, and a strategic mountain pass under military control.To stop it, Hester and Evander must return to the frontier that destroyed their future.Joined by the women of the Royal Atlas and the men who have learned to stand beside them, they race across Europe aboard a sabotaged train, follow botanical and astronomical clues through hostile mountains, and enter a ruined survey fortress whose haunted passages conceal a deadly mechanical secret.But the most dangerous discovery is waiting inside their own surviving letters.Someone altered the reports that ended their partnership. Someone ensured that each believed the other had chosen ambition over love. And the same institution that stole their past is now prepared to destroy every marker that could expose the truth.With an international commission approaching and an army closing around them, Hester must choose between the cautious compromises that have protected her work and a public reckoning that could cost her title, her security, and everything she has built.Evander has already lost her once.This time, standing beside her may cost him the last remnants of his career—but remaining silent will cost them both far more.Her Name Across the Map is the sweeping final novel in The Women of the Royal Atlas, featuring a formidable widow heroine, mature old lovers, dangerous expeditions, political intrigue, stolen intellectual credit, and a hard-won romantic happy ending.