A Study in Love and Revenge (Dreaming Spires Romantic Mysteries #2)

A Study in Love and Revenge (Dreaming Spires Romantic Mysteries #2) by Maxine Barry is out now, published September 2, 2026.

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A Study in Love and Revenge (Dreaming Spires Romantic Mysteries #2) Release Date: September 2, 2026

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Multi-million bestselling author Faith Martin writes romantic mysteries as Maxine Barry.

At St Bede’s College, Oxford, the sherry is poured at five, dinner is eaten by candlelight — and everyone has something they’d rather you didn’t know.

Davina Granger is the most talked-about poet of her generation. And the newest honorary fellow of St Bede’s College, Oxford.

Everyone at the university is charmed. No one suspects why she’s really here.

She’s come for Dr Gareth Lacey. The brilliant, beloved tutor her brother named, letter after letter, as the man who drove him to despair.

Her plan is simple. Make Gareth fall in love. Break his heart. Leave before the term is out.

But nobody warned her that Gareth would be young. Brilliant. And gorgeous. Nothing like the man she has spent so long hating.

As the winter frost lifts from the quad, Gareth gets harder to resent . . . and even harder to resist.

Because her brother’s letters told her everything. They just didn’t tell her the truth.

And what if the only man who can mend her broken heart is the one she came to ruin?

Perfect for readers who can’t resist a twisty mystery, a steamy forbidden romance and a deeply buried secret that changes everything.

For fans of R.L. Killmore’s Cinnamon Falls Mysteries, Faith Martin, Nora Roberts, Catherine Cowles, Claire Kingsley, Elle Cosimano and Pretty Little Liars.

This book was previously published as Moth to the Flame and An Oxford Revenge.

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Genre: Cozy Mystery, Romance

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