Promise to obey

the long version

When Jessica is charmed by Lucas Coleman into accepting a job at grand Upton Hall, she is not expecting to have to provide full-time care for his autistic son and asthmatic daughter, as well as the sharp-tongued Lady Grace, who is recuperating from hip replacement surgery. And she certainly did not expect a marriage proposal from her employer. But where is the children's mother? Fighting her attraction to the beguiling Lucas, she is determined to keep her head. A disastrous affair with a London doctor has put her off men; but when he descends on Upton Hall, determined to win her back, Jessica's life is thrown into turmoil.