About the book: 1999 / The daughter of Freddie Lattimore, Earl of Moncrief, was born under such scandalous circumstances that the frivolous young father hastened to send the girl to the estate, hiring a governess. But who would agree to become an illegitimate governess? Perhaps the independent and emancipated Katherine Sanderson, the girl who awakened in Freddie’s heart a passion that he did not even consider himself capable of. Catherine agrees to accept the Count's love - but in return she puts forward one strange condition…