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The Governess Game

Pages
373
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: governess to two wild orphans everyone else has given up on. What the girls need isn't more discipline, it's a loving home, and Alexandra is the first adult clever enough to see it.

Their guardian is Chase Reynaud: duke's heir in the streets, devil in the sheets, and a committed bachelor who believes himself unfit for anything as domestic as attachment. When his new governess proves stubbornly determined to reform him, Chase decides to turn the tables and give her an education instead, in pleasure.

Alexandra is cleverer, more perceptive, and far more passionate than Chase bargained for, and she refuses to write him off as a lost cause. As the walls around his heart start to crumble, he finds himself in genuine danger of falling hard. The second novel in Tessa Dare's New York Times bestselling Girl Meets Duke series, The Governess Game is a witty, steamy Regency romance about a rake who's certain he can't be tamed, and the one woman equipped to prove him wrong.

About the author

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Tessa Dare

Tessa Dare is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twelve historical romance novels and four novellas. Her books have won numerous accolades, including Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and multiple RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Booklist magazine named her one of the “new stars of historical romance," and her books have been contracted for translation in a dozen languages. A librarian by training and a booklover at heart, Tessa makes her home in...

Characters

Lady Alexandra MountbattenProtagonist

A clever, perceptive young woman who takes a governess post after losing her livelihood, and refuses to see her employer as a lost cause.

Chase ReynaudProtagonist

Duke's heir and self-declared rake who lives by a no-attachments rule, guardian to his two wild young wards.

Miss PrudenceSupporting

The other of Chase's two young wards.

All characters in The Governess Game

Frequently asked questions

  • Is The Governess Game part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?

    It's the second book in Tessa Dare's Girl Meets Duke series, after The Duchess Deal. It features new leads and a self-contained story, so it can be read as a standalone.

  • How steamy is The Governess Game?

    It's a historical romance with explicit, open-door love scenes, balanced with plenty of humor and banter.

  • Does The Governess Game have a happy ending?

    Yes — like all of Tessa Dare's romances, it guarantees a happily-ever-after for Alexandra and Chase.

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