The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

He's been a bad, bad rake--and it takes a governess to teach him a lesson

The accidental governess

After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don't need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke's heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried--and failed--to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart . . . without risking her own.

The infamous rake

Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education--in pleasure. That should prove he can't be tamed. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. She refuses to see him as a lost cause. Soon the walls around Chase's heart are crumbling . . . and he's in danger of falling, hard.

Tessa Dare is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen historical romances. Tessa, a librarian by training and a lifelong bookworm, lives in Southern California with her husband, two children, and a pair of cosmic kitties in a charming, messy cottage.