Shortlisted

In 1920s Austria, no one in the Viennese opera company knows that their wardrobe mistress Tessa is really a princess. But when the dashing self-made millionaire Guy Fane accepts the post of seamstress at Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and Dance, she wasn't expecting it to be quite so unusual. Hiding her royal heritage from the world in order to pursue her real love of the arts, Tessa is hired by a millionaire to entertain his fancy guests, but when passion sparks Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But for 19-year-old Harriet Morton, life in 1912 Cambridge is dull, so dull. Her stuffy father and her oppressive aunt Louisa allow her only one outlet: croquet. When a Russian croquet master 
turns her world upside down, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Penniless and without money, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as a servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family. Anna is overwhelmed by her new duties, and her instant attraction to Rupert, the handsome Earl of Westerholme. To make matters worse, Rupert appears to be falling for her, too. Streuth. Anna finds it increasingly difficult to keep her secrets from unraveling; and then there's the small matter of Rupert's fiancée, Madge
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