An Improper Companion

by Karla Hocker

Book Overview

Damien Ashcroft was certain that schoolmistress Kate Elliott would be the perfect companion for his daughter. She would neither distract him from his scholarly life nor be bothered by his disdain for women. But he was stunned when prim Miss Elliott turned out to be a lovely, enchanting woman Regency romance.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821726919
• ISBN13: 9780821726914
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

She wore a mask of propriety but was a coquette at heart

Despite her fetching blue eyes and sable hair, Kate Elliot remained every bit the prim and practical schoolmistress. Few at Miss Venable's Seminary for Young Ladies would have dreamed that Kate had entertained romantic notions in her girlhood! At 28, she remained firmly on the shelf, and with the closing of the school, firmly unemployed. Hence, she welcomed the invitation to be Liza Ashcoft's chaperone for the Season at Bath. But how would she endure the girl's toplofty father? Patience was not in her nature. Damion Ashcoft was certain that Miss Elliott would be the ideal companion for his daughter. A wallflower of quiet virtues, she would neither distract the handsome widower from scholarly pursuits nor be bothered by his disdain for women. So he was stunned to discover that them impudent Miss Elliott was outspoken to a fare-the-well. And shocked when sassy Kate made his pulse race alarmingly-surely out of anger. Ashcoft would have to teach her how to behave properly...