An attractive thirty-two-year-old bachelor, the tenth earl of Berham has been appointed guardian of eighteen-year-old Freddie Armstrong, the grandson of a family friend. Then he discovers that the boy is really a girl! It is against all convention to keep a young lady concealed in his own home. Lady Clarissa Rennenord, who hopes to snare the earl in marriage and does not want any competition, recommends that Freddie be sent to a seminary. No one but Lady Rennenord knows what a horrid place it isand no one, including Lady Rennenord, expects Freddie to escape. Now Freddie is back, and the earl finds her presence unsettling in more ways than one.
An attractive thirty-two-year-old bachelor, the tenth earl of Berham has been appointed guardian of eighteen-year-old Freddie Armstrong, the grandson of a family friend. Then he discovers that the boy is really a girl! It is against all convention to keep a young lady concealed in his own home. Lady Clarissa Rennenord, who hopes to snare the earl in marriage and does not want any competition, recommends that Freddie be sent to a seminary. No one but Lady Rennenord knows what a horrid place it isand no one, including Lady Rennenord, expects Freddie to escape. Now Freddie is back, and the earl finds her presence unsettling in more ways than one.