She wasn't looking for a lover, or a husband. But what she found was...Simply Perfect. Claudia's story
Miss Martin's School for Girls #4
Delacorte Press
April 2008
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Featuring: Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough; Claudia Martin
352 pages ISBN: 0385338244 EAN: 9780385338240 Kindle: B000WJSBKK Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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. 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. Not that Claudia
Martin is looking for a lover. Or a husband. As owner and
headmistress of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, she
long ago resigned herself to a life without love. 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.
Joseph has his own
reasons for seeking Claudia out. Instantly, irresistibly
attracted to the dedicated teacher, he embarks on a plan of
seduction that leaves them both yearning for more. But as
heir to a prestigious dukedom, Joseph is expected to carry
on his family’s legacy. And Claudia knows she has no place
in his world.
Now that world is about to be rocked by
scandal. An arranged marriage, a secret that will shock the
ton, and a man from Claudia’s past conspire to drive
the lovers apart. But Joseph is determined to make Claudia
his at any cost. Even if that means defying convention and
breaking every rule for a love that is everything he has
ever wanted—a love that is perfection itself…