Lydia Bennet faces the music…
Running
off with Mr. Wickham was a great joke—until everything turned
arsey-varsey. That spoilsport Mr. Darcy
caught them and packed Lydia off to a hideous boarding school for girls who had
lost their virtue.
It
would improve her character, he said.
Ridiculous,
she said.
Mrs.
Drummond, the school’s headmistress, has shocking expectations for the girls.
They must share rooms, do chores, attend lessons, and engage in charitable
work, no matter how well born they might be. She even forces them to wear
mobcaps! Refusal could lead to finding themselves at the receiving end of Mrs.
Drummond's cane—if they were lucky. The unlucky ones could be dismissed and
found a position … as a menial servant.
Everything
and everyone at the school is uniformly horrid. Lydia hates them all, except
possibly the music master, Mr. Amberson, who seems to have the oddest ideas
about her. He might just understand her better than she understands herself.
Can
she find a way to live up to his strange expectations, or will she spend the
rest of her life as a scullery maid?
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Though
Maria Grace has been writing fiction since she was ten years old, those early
efforts happily reside in a file drawer and are unlikely to see the light of
day again, for which many are grateful. After penning five file-drawer novels
in high school, she took a break from writing to pursue college and earn her
doctorate in Educational Psychology. After 16 years of university teaching, she
returned to her first love, fiction writing.
She
has one husband, two graduate degrees and two black belts, three sons, four
undergraduate majors, five nieces, six new novels in the works, attended seven
period balls, sewn eight Regency era costumes, shared her life with nine cats
through the years and published her tenth book last year.
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