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"Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission - she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace! World-famous playboy-athlete Kenny Traveler has kickedup his boot heels one too many...

George Gallion walked into Tad's Barbershop to get a haircut and came out with one of the biggest headaches in the Valley--the job of principal at Kensington High School.

Dyer Martin, a new history teacher at the prestigious Britton School, and James, a lonely senior who only wants to make it through his final year unscathed, fall victim to the radical political fervor of the school's stern headmaster, James's father Ed Wolfe.

Trollope's most "subversive" novel, this is a wide-ranging condemnation of group morals, collective prejudice and the devastating power that conventional values have upon well intentioned individuals. The novel takes place in the respectable, fictional parish of Bowick, Victorian England, with the main plot concerning itself with the renowned Dr. Wortle's Christian seminary academy. The community's morals are outraged and the school's credibility...