Miss Prentiss and the Yankee

"IF IT IS WAR YOU WANT, LADY, I SHALL BE HAPPY TO OBLIGE YOU."

The infernal man! What devilish design did this barbarian Yankee portend -- besides waving the gauntlet at her? A truly superior governess did not lose her temper or allow herself to be ruffled. Abigail Prentiss had not come here to fight the revolutionary war all over again with arrogant, ill-mannered Mr. Harding.

Her job was to turn the two Miss Hardings from Pennsylvania into proper, elegant English ladies, acceptable to the ton. And she would manage to do it in spite of their brother and his boorish behavior.

She would be the last to admit that this hearty, lusty male had already begun to crack the walls she had so carefully constructed around her own heart.

Hero: Mr. Nathaniel Harding
Heroine: Abigail Prentiss