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Alexandra Mountbatten, a governess, is employed to guide and reform a group of orphaned wards, instilling proper manners and social graces expected of young ladies. When famed libertine Chase Reynaud arrives, he challenges Alexandra’s methods, offering her a provocative lesson in pleasure that complicates her mission and the young women’s futures.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Tessa Dare
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