In the gaslit shadows of 1878 London, Eleanor Voss is a woman trapped between two worlds. By day, she plays the proper Victorian lady—corseted, silent, invisible. By midnight, she is something else entirely: a mathematician and engineer, the sole inheritor of her dying father's greatest secret—a revolutionary storage coil that could power the future itself.
Lord Rhys Calder is a man running out of time. His mills are failing, his fortune crumbling, and the ghosts of a factory fire that claimed his wife still haunt every shadow. Desperate and ruthless, he arrives at Eleanor's workshop with a contract in one hand and a threat in the other. He wants her father's invention. He will stop at nothing to claim it.
But Eleanor is not the pliable heiress he expected. She rewrites his contract on the spot, demands partnership over patronage, and refuses to be erased. Their alliance is forged in copper and competition—until sabotage, stolen patents, and the machinations of a ruthless gas syndicate force them into an impossible position.
As the voltage rises and the sparks fly, Eleanor and Rhys must decide: Is this a war of attrition—or the beginning of an electric attraction that could change everything?
For readers who love slow-burn romance, fierce heroines, and the intoxicating clash of science and desire, Coiled Attraction is a Victorian steampunk love story that crackles with tension from the first page to the last.
