Jilted for a well-born bride and left with two pounds, Winnie takes a job as governess to a widowed colonel's troubled son. With handmade grass animals and patient care, she reaches the boy no one else can comfort. Then he gives her a pearl hairpin worth years of her wages, and his father's lingering gaze makes her heart race. But she is only the governess. Is she mistaking gratitude for something more?
