A governess with a secret may find herself in a new position—as the mistress of her master’s house, in this Victorian romance. Cornwall, 1855. Unfairly dismissed from her previous position, governess Maud Wilmot’s reputation is ruined. The predicament is so dire that she is forced to take on a new identity in order to secure another position. When she feels an ever-growing attraction to her new employer, Cornish railway entrepreneur Dominic Jago, Maud longs to reveal the truth. But doing so could end their fledgling romance before it’s truly begun . . .