Instantly, irresistibly attracted to the dedicated teacher, he embarks on a plan of seduction that leaves them both yearning for more. Joseph has his own reasons for seeking Claudia out. Until Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough, arrives unannounced and tempts her to toss away a lifetime of propriety for an affair that can only lead to ruin. As owner and headmistress of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, she long ago resigned herself to a life without love. Not that Claudia Martin is looking for a lover. Here, amid music lessons and garden parties, whispered confessions and secret yearnings, one of the school’s teachers-headmistress Claudia Martin-will find her well-ordered world jolted by love when she meets a man who would make the perfect husband…for somebody else.Tall, dark, and exquisitely sensual, he is the epitome of male perfection. For Lucius's passionate, single-minded pursuit is about to force Frances to give up all her secrets-except one-to win the heart of the man she already loves.BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.Set against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s latest novel sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of an elite academy for young ladies. So begins an odyssey fraught with intrigue, one that defies propriety and shocks the straitlaced ton. If Frances will not be his wife, he will make her his mistress.
And when fate once again throws them together, Lucius refuses to take no for an answer. Due to begin her teaching position at Miss Martin's School in Bath, Frances must try to forget that one extraordinary night-and the man who touched her with such exquisite tenderness and abandon.īut Frances cannot hide forever. But Frances knows her place, and it is far from the privileged world of the sensual aristocrat. Stranded together in a rustic country inn, Lucius Marshall, who is the Viscount Sinclair, and Frances Allard share a night of glorious, unforgettable passion. Between these two unlikely strangers, desire is instantaneous. He is the cool, black-caped stranger who unexpectedly comes to her rescue. She is a young teacher with a secret past.
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