Not, Really a Governess

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Lessons in love can't be taught—they must be felt.

Shy Lady Rose Bennett had nearly forgotten her late grandmother's curious letter—until the words resurfaced with a jolt. If you are not married by four-and-twenty, it is time for an adventure. Time to challenge yourself.

A challenge, indeed. As a marchioness and sister to the Duke of Essex, what adventures were truly left to her? Certainly not the sort her protective brother Andrew would ever permit.

But Danielle, her irrepressible sister-in-law, had no patience for rules. With a twinkle in her eye and a scheme on her lips, she proposed the unthinkable: Rose should become a governess. The unsuspecting victim? Lord Linus Hamilton, Earl of Lexden—a handsome but brooding widower, father to three mischievous children, and a man who had long since sworn off love. Hiring a highborn lady as a governess was, in his mind, utter lunacy. Unfortunately for him, Lady Danielle could be alarmingly persuasive.

What begins as a lark soon turns into something far more dangerous. Between unruly lessons, stolen glances, and laughter where grief once reigned, Rose discovers her heart is no longer her own. For the greatest challenge she faces may not be life as a 'not-so-governess,' but the peril of falling for the very man who refuses to love again.