Rutledge

A sharp ring cuts through the November gloom at St. Catharine’s—and the schoolgirl facing goodbye learns that her escort has arrived. His name: Mr. Arthur Rutledge.

On the eve of leaving the boarding school where she has spent five years, the motherless narrator is caught between grief for her friends and extravagant hopes for the aunt and cousins she has never known. Then Arthur Rutledge appears: an accomplished gentleman, calm where she is all blushes and alarm, and already familiar with the family waiting to receive her. Beyond the school gates lies a home she has imagined into a thousand possibilities—and a first meeting she scarcely knows how to survive. What will she find when she follows Mr. Rutledge into this new life?

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