Anne Wynter's job as governess to three highborn young ladies can be a challenge
- in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas playing an evil queen in a play & tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances he's the first man who has truly tempted her & it's getting harder & harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman. Daniel Smythe-Smith might be in mortal danger but that's not going to stop the young earl from falling in love. & when he spies a mysterious woman at his family's annual musicale he vows to pursue her. But Daniel has an enemy one who has vowed to see him dead. & when Anne is thrown into peril he will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending.. . New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's enchanting second novel in the Smythe-Smith quartet is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud & tug at your heartstrings in equal measures.