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Temptation of a Teacher

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Shortly after the death of her father the Earl of Weir, beautiful young Lady Arletta is penniless, having been ousted from the family estate. Desperate to escape her misery she is heartened to hear that her close friend Jane is to be married to the new Bishop of Jamaica. The trouble is that at the same time she had agreed to travel to France to be Governess to the children of the Duc de Sauterre. Jane cannot let her fiancée down – nor can she disappoint her new employer. But Arletta has a solution for them both. So that Jane is free to get married, Arletta will travel to the Duc’s Dordogne Château posing as Jane!

On arrival, she finds the Duc as surly and rude as he is handsome. Worse still he hates the English and she struggles to win him over while resisting the attentions of the Duc’s dashing cousin the Comte, who is rumoured to be a murderer.

And soon, despite herself, Arletta finds herself losing her heart to the haughty Frenchman who despises everything she stands for. And who, surely, can never feel anything for her but contempt.

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Author’s NoteWhen I visited France in June 1983, I motored with my son to the mountainous fertile Dordogne. Passing along a narrow roadway I saw a magnificent Medieval Château, rising above a small river, very ancient but obviously still inhabited. We drove closer and found behind it that there was a small attractive village with a lovely twelfth century Church exactly as I have described in this story. That night we stayed in a very old Château, which had been converted into a hotel. My circular bedroom was in the tower. It had a beamed ceiling and small windows in a three-foot-thick wall from which there was a panoramic view of the countryside. Beneath me I was sure that there were dark haunted dungeons! This story was born before I fell asleep. Arletta was the name of William the Conqueror’s mother, who came from Normandy, and his grandfather, Duke Rollo, had three sons who became Kings of England. The Granvilles, who are one of the oldest and most famous families in England, can trace their ancestry directly back to Duke Rollo.

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