New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so wellRegency Englandin a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling. With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special worlda select academy for young ladiesa world of innocence and temptation. Drawing us into the lives of four women, teachers at Miss Martins School for Girls, Balogh introduces this novels marvelous heroine music teacher Frances Allardand the man who seduces her with a passion no woman could possibly forget.They meet in a ferocious snowstorm. She is a young teacher with a secret past. He is the cool, black-caped stranger who unexpectedly comes to her rescue. Between these two unlikely strangers, desire is instantaneousand utterly impossible to resist.
