Description
At the age of five-and-thirty, Sir Waldo Hawkridge — wealthy, handsome, eligible and illustrious, and known as the Nonesuch for his athletic prowess — comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom Hall in the West Riding, and his arrival leads to the most entertaining ramifications. When the village learned that Sir Waldo was coming, the gentry were thrown into a flurry. The famed sportsman himself! Heir to an uncounted fortune and a leader of London society! The local youths idolized "the Nonesuch"; the fathers disapproved; and the mothers and daughters saw him as the most eligible — and elusive — man in the kingdom.
While there, he meets Tiffany Wield, a positively dazzling young heiress who is entirely selfish and possessed of a frightful temper, as well as her far more elegant companion-governess. Twenty-eight-year-old Ancilla Trent had put away any and all thoughts of romance when she became a governess, and at first she could only be amused by the fuss over Sir Waldo. Can Sir Waldo convince the practical Miss Trent that it is not above her station as a governess to fall in love with him?