The Hedgehog's Masquerade: Improper Entanglements 1

By Hillora Lang, Novel Concepts Publishing, Catherine McDowell

She has a hedgehog, twelve thousand pounds of debt, and a formula for turning plants into gold. What could possibly go wrong?

Miss Petronella "Nell" Finch is doing her best to keep Finch Manor standing while her father chases archaeological glory across the Continent-and leaves her holding the bill for every catastrophic decision he's ever made. Unfortunately, his latest "discovery" comes with debts so large they're practically their own weather system.

Nell's plan is simple: collect seven sacred botanical specimens, perform the alchemical ritual, transmute the results into gold, and save the family. Her hedgehog, Lord Prickles, approves. (He has strong opinions about everything.)
Then Captain Basil Ambrose of His Majesty's Treasury arrives to collect what the Finches owe-rational, orderly, and entirely unprepared for a young woman who packs champagne and crystals for a cross-country expedition... and a hedgehog who seems to be running the operation.

To pay the debt, Nell and Basil must race from ancient sites to sacred caves, dodging incompetent highwaymen, eccentric villagers, and the unsettling feeling that the ritual is attracting attention from forces that don't care about polite society-or Treasury paperwork.

A Regency gaslamp fantasy romance full of alchemy, absurdity, and adventure.
Clean romance (fade to black).
Hedgehogs with opinions.

No actual plants were transmuted in the making of this novel.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY3MHXQK
• ISBN13: 9798258287816
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"