Author Note

For a long time, I’d dreamed of writing a secondary character who didn’t let poverty stop her from living life with zest. Someone with a tarnished heart of gold, and who could make the world a better place—even if she had unorthodox methods that would land anyone else in deep trouble.

This character briefly appeared in To Win a Wallflower but she didn’t have a name. I didn’t plan on letting her go. When the Tyner family ancestry was being discussed, I heard, and loved, the name Ella Etta, and I couldn’t forget it. Now my wanderer had a name, and I brought her back in Compromised into Marriage, and now again in The Governess’s Guide to Marriage.

I hope you enjoy Miranda and Chalgrove’s story, and I hope that Ella Etta steals a place in your heart as well, but do keep your silver locked away.