The Kaleidoscope Maker's Secret
A Regency Romance

About this book:

In the soot-choked London of 1817, watercolorist Clara West sees the world in pigments she cannot afford—until a flash of impossible color in an optician’s window draws her into the secret workshop of Caelen Brewster. The dour Scotsman is racing to perfect his brother’s revolutionary invention: the kaleidoscope, a device that turns shattered glass into symmetrical stars. He has the geometry; she has the artist’s eye for light. But with her rent due at sunset and his patent besieged by spies, their desperate bargain—her color expertise for his coin—ignites a partnership as volatile as the chemicals on his bench.

As Clara arranges fragments of ruby, blue, and gold into the instrument’s heart, she discovers that Brewster’s mirrors reflect more than light; they expose the fractured pieces of two solitary lives. He guards his calculations with the paranoia of a man hunted; she fights her growing fascination with the same stubborn pride that keeps her hunger hidden. From the damp garrets of Covent Garden to the gilded drawing rooms where the ton clamors for the new "philosophical toy," they navigate a world where a stolen blueprint means ruin and a misplaced trust means heartbreak.

*The Kaleidoscope Maker’s Secret* is a lush, intelligent Regency romance where science and art collide, and love is the only pattern that cannot be calculated. For readers who crave sharp banter, high-stakes historical detail, and a heroine who paints her own salvation—one brilliant, refracted color at a time.