She wasn't looking for a lover. Or a husband. But what she found was ...
Miss Martin?s School #4
Dell
January 2009
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Featuring: Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough; Claudia Martin
ISBN: 0440241995 EAN: 9780440241997 Kindle: B000WJSBKK Paperback / e-Book (reprint) 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…