She has always been an orphan at the mercy of Miss Clearwater, the headmistress of Miss Clearwater's School for Young Ladies. She is a governess at the bidding of her employers. She then becomes his mistress...
Olivia Fairfax has lived her entire life on the kindness of others. Her intelligence is what saves her from a life at Miss Clearwater's School for Young Ladies. Instead, she becomes a governess to set of twins. They are boisterous and hate anything that even smells of academics. Olivia has five years to mold them into women for the start of their first Season. But, she becomes entangled with her employer's married cousin, the Baron of Dryden.
Philip, Lord Dryden, only married Cecily because their parents insisted. They have been married nigh a year and lead separate lives. She in London and he at Tourneycross. His estate is some miles from his cousin, Lord Baynes. There he spends most of his time in the warm embrace of Lord Baynes' family. It is then he meets Miss Fairfax in her second year as governess. He is instantly enchanted by her unfailing optimism in the presence of a tittering twin girls.
She, too, is smitten by the kindness and grace she reads in his every motion. Even if he was unattached, marriage would be out of the question. So, instead, she chooses the alternate route. That of mistress, a fallen woman to respectable eyes.
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Historical FictionBeing a governess was truly the only path open to Olivia Fairfax. Left as a child on the doorstep of Miss Clearwater's School for Girls, she had lived her life among the spoiled and rich daughters of the ton. They often eschewed her company due to h...
