A Lady’s Education

She knows her place. He’s about to teach her a new one.Lizzie Draper arrives at Blanchford Hall expecting nothing more than honest work as a lady’s maid. But when she glimpses Lord Hawthorne through a half-open door, disciplining his wife in ways Lizzie never imagined, something awakens in her that no amount of propriety can silence.When tragedy strikes and the young lord is left alone with his grief, Lizzie makes a reckless choice. She offers herself to him, not as a servant but as a woman who wants what she saw. What she gets is far more than she bargained for.Charlie Hawthorne cares nothing for society’s rules. He cares about the dark-haired maid who trembles under his hand but refuses to stay where he puts her. She insists a girl like her can never be with a man like him. He intends to prove her wrong, one lesson at a time.But Lizzie has her pride, and the world has its expectations. Even as she falls deeper into his arms and under his command, she knows desire does not pay the rent, and passion leaves consequences that last longer than the sting of his palm.A Lady’s Education is the complete collection of the trilogy: Learning Her Place, She Needs a Firm Hand, and Bent Over the Balcony.