Simply Perfect By: Mary Balogh (Simply Quartet #4)

Claudia Martin, owner and headmistress of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, is a confirmed spinster. She is 35 years old and has achieved her longtime goals and dreams. Her school is a success and has recently expanded in both size and numbers. She no longer needs the support of her long-time secret benefactor. She is able to offer a good education to a number of charity pupils as well as to the daughters of wealthy fathers. It is true that in the past few years she has lost three of her teachers and closest friends to matrimony, but she still has a staff of whom she is both proud and fond. Love and marriage are dreams she has long pushed into non-existence as unattainable. Claudia Martin is not a brooder. She is not someone to feel sorry for herself. She considers herself happy. She counts her blessings.Joseph Fawcitt, Marquess of Attingsborough, is also 35 years old. He is handsome, charming, elegant, popular, wealthy–a man at the peak of his sexual appeal. For years he has bee