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The Runaway Governess
(2026)(The second book in the Runaway Ladies of Sydney series)
A novel by Jenny Wheeler
A missing sister. A borrowed name. A secret that could ruin them both.
Sydney, 1869.
They say Juliet Penrose eloped. Her sister knows better. Twins keep no secrets — so when Juliet vanishes from London and the family is told she's run off to Australia, Marianne doesn't believe a word of it. Juliet would never have gone without her; Juliet would have written. After six weeks of waiting for a letter that never comes, the Hatton Garden goldsmith's daughter does the unthinkable: she takes a false name — plain Mary Penn, governess — and sails to the far side of the world to find the truth herself. A post in a Sydney merchant's household gives her the cover to search. It cannot give her back her real name, or protect her if she's found out.
Rupert Bellamy has only one thing of value, and it isn't money. Raised from nothing on his mother's sacrifices, he has clawed his way to a partnership by being cleverer, harder-working, and more scrupulously honest than the well-born men who look down on him — because a man with no family and no fortune has nothing to fall back on but his good name. So when a maddening, secretive governess he rescues on the wharf draws him into helping trace a missing woman, he knows he should refuse. He doesn't. And he has no idea that the names and records he uncovers are pulling him toward the one conflict that could cost him everything he's built.
Drawn together against their better judgement, Mary and Rupert each carry a secret that makes the other dangerous to love — hers a stolen identity, his a loyalty he may not be able to keep. And the closer they come to the truth about Juliet, the clearer it grows that the glittering colonial world around them is hiding something — and that someone would rather a runaway governess stopped asking questions.
To save her sister, Mary must risk everything she's pretending to be. To do what's right, Rupert may have to destroy the very name that is all he owns. And the one person each of them should keep at arm's length is the one they can't do without.
A captivating story of courage, reinvention, and forbidden desire ''' set in the glittering yet treacherous world of colonial Sydney.
Perfect for readers who love Belinda Alexandra, Christine Wells, and Deanna Raybourn.
The Runaway Governess is Book Two in the Runaway Ladies of Sydney. Each book can be read as a standalone or as part of the series.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Sydney, 1869.
They say Juliet Penrose eloped. Her sister knows better. Twins keep no secrets — so when Juliet vanishes from London and the family is told she's run off to Australia, Marianne doesn't believe a word of it. Juliet would never have gone without her; Juliet would have written. After six weeks of waiting for a letter that never comes, the Hatton Garden goldsmith's daughter does the unthinkable: she takes a false name — plain Mary Penn, governess — and sails to the far side of the world to find the truth herself. A post in a Sydney merchant's household gives her the cover to search. It cannot give her back her real name, or protect her if she's found out.
Rupert Bellamy has only one thing of value, and it isn't money. Raised from nothing on his mother's sacrifices, he has clawed his way to a partnership by being cleverer, harder-working, and more scrupulously honest than the well-born men who look down on him — because a man with no family and no fortune has nothing to fall back on but his good name. So when a maddening, secretive governess he rescues on the wharf draws him into helping trace a missing woman, he knows he should refuse. He doesn't. And he has no idea that the names and records he uncovers are pulling him toward the one conflict that could cost him everything he's built.
Drawn together against their better judgement, Mary and Rupert each carry a secret that makes the other dangerous to love — hers a stolen identity, his a loyalty he may not be able to keep. And the closer they come to the truth about Juliet, the clearer it grows that the glittering colonial world around them is hiding something — and that someone would rather a runaway governess stopped asking questions.
To save her sister, Mary must risk everything she's pretending to be. To do what's right, Rupert may have to destroy the very name that is all he owns. And the one person each of them should keep at arm's length is the one they can't do without.
A captivating story of courage, reinvention, and forbidden desire ''' set in the glittering yet treacherous world of colonial Sydney.
Perfect for readers who love Belinda Alexandra, Christine Wells, and Deanna Raybourn.
The Runaway Governess is Book Two in the Runaway Ladies of Sydney. Each book can be read as a standalone or as part of the series.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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