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A Monstrous Secret

by Rebecca Ward

SPIES! SECRET INVENTIONS! A DEVILISH GENTLEMAN! MISS WEATHERBY TOOK IT ALL IN STRIDE. Melinda Weatherby was aware of her aunt's eccentricities, but it was preposterous for Zenobie to be suspected of being a spy--selling England's secrets to the enemy! Her only crime was living next to a brilliant inventor, who was working on an underwater vessel that would outperform the infamous Nautilus. Lord Hartford was determined to catch Zenobie in the act of treason, and Melinda vowed to prove him wrong. Worse, she knew that she herself was not beyond suspicion in this broth of espionage! Entangled in a web of intrigue, she was made all the more breathless by Hartford himself, whose relentless search had surely uncovered the most dangerous of truths: she had lost her heart!

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?