When former naval captain, Harry Kincaid, is left in the lurch with his flighty older sister’s three unruly children, he hasn’t a clue how to handle it. Desperate, and prepared to pay whatever it takes, he turns to Miss Prentice’s School for Young Ladies for an emergency governess who can get his formerly ordered house running shipshape again.
After a strict and miserable upbringing, fledgling governess Georgie Rowe doesn’t believe that children should be seen and not heard. She believes that childhood should be filled with laughter, adventure, and discovery (. . . everything hers wasn’t). Thankfully, the three Pendleton children are already delightfully bohemian and instantly embrace her unconventional approach. However, their staid, stickler-for-the-rules uncle, is another matter entirely.
Georgie and Harry are soon butting heads over their differences, but as time passes, their attraction soon becomes undeniable and, after all, all’s fair in love and war . . .
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At 16, Georgie Rowe is sent to a prestigious school for governesses by her abusive stepfather after her mother dies of smallpox. Six years later, she’s the last of her friends to be hired and is sent to Captain Harry Kincaid’s household. Harry’s free-spirited sister has left her three unruly children (and a dog) with him, while he, a strict and orderly Navy man, struggles with the new responsibility. Georgie, a bit of a rebel, works hard to manage the disciplined Captain and the energetic children who are not used to traditional schooling. Their romance develops slowly but engagingly, with a significant location change and many fun moments with the children and secondary characters. Georgie’s past trauma, particularly her memories of her abusive stepfather, adds depth to the story.
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