Description

The nest of New Geneva has grown from the ashes of her desperate mother world, Earth, by repairing a culture centered on a period before anything went horribly, horribly wrong,the Victorian-Era,Violet Merriweather first sets eyes on Colonel Winston when he buys her at market from Witherspoon School, the orphanage where she’d been elevated after her recovery from Earth. Dutifully, as she was trained, Violet forces out her anxiety about the massive, forbidding Thornfield Abbey, and throws herself into her act as governess to the Colonel’s newest son.But the Colonelis parent kids have additional ideas.John and Gideon Winston are as different as night and day, and each really wants to declare Violet for their own. Steve instantly charms her together with his friendly attitude and intellect, while Gideon, the rogue, pleasures in flustering her at every chance, arising a longing she does not comprehend and most definitely doesn't need. She attempts to reject her draw to both males, as she’s stunned by an undercover New Geneva she had not recognized existed but a new alliance is forged by an uneasy midnight bargain with one.