Louise Pakeman
ASIN: B00J8W5PWE
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 146
To her mother's dismay, Harriet Grant is not like other girls. Her independence and fierce spirit leads her decline her family's preferred suitor - Mr. Thompson - because his marriage proposal is based on convenience and not true love. Instead, she leaves to become a governess at Roseleigh, a place of haunted rumours, for the two young daughters of Sir Simon Dester. Upon her arrival though she soon realises that the longer she spends time with the brooding aristocrat, the more her resolution to stay away from him starts to weaken. However, despite their magnetic attraction Harriet cannot help feel that Sir Simon is hiding something from her. When she wakes up in the night to the sound of crying, he is quick to dismiss her concerns as nothing but dreams and a wild imagination. But nothing at Roseleigh is quite what it seems, least of all her employer who, far from being the dull ...