The House of Scissors — Isobel Chace

Why couldn't he see she wasn't a child?

Arabella was annoyed that the autocratic Lucien Manners saw fit to compare her with his eleven-year-old niece.

It was true that at their first encounter she'd been dressed like the "street arab" he described, rather than the model she was, on location in East Africa.

She wished she didn't care what this famous archeologist thought -- but she did. At least she'd like to turn his interest from long-dead historical figures to a live modern woman!

Hero: Lucien Manners
Heroine: Arabella Burnett