Patience Winters’ world is about to turn upside down. After two years as personal assistant to the stern and striking Professor Richmond at the Women’s Academy, her term is about to end. Achingly in love with him, Patience longs for the professor to give her a reason to stay. Desperate for some hint he might feel the same way, Patience steals a peek at her mentor’s secret journal and discovers his scandalous fantasies. But how can she let the professor know she’s in on his secret? Her typical breathless "yes, Professor" has never meant so much. 

Ms. Rosalyn Abbett, a spirited young suffragette in 1890's New York, has just received news that fills her with panic.  The confident, striking and highly acclaimed Mr. Anthony Simms, a man she's met only through letters, will be arriving tomorrow night.  Rosalyn's not at all sure what to think.  A junior curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she and Mr. Simms are to prepare an exhibition of royal jewelry from around the world.  Together.  Without a chaperone.  With an entire museum all to themselves, will her scorching dreams of this stranger come true?