Young Melory has no experience as a governess, but she has two younger brothers and a sister, whom she tutors in school subjects, not without success. Besides, she needs to feed her family. And then luck smiled on the girl: she was hired to raise ten-year-old Serena Benedict at the Morven Grange estate. Serena's uncle, the stern and domineering bachelor Rife, torments Melory with nagging, and the girl's father, the handsome and mysterious widower Adrian, whose only solace in life is music, on the contrary, shows sympathy for the governess. Melory, meanwhile, is trying to understand her own feelings for these two men...

Annotation on the back of the book: Charming Melory comes to work as a governess at the Benedict estate in north Wales. Two brothers live in the mansion: the eldest, Raif, a bachelor, and the younger, Adrian, a widower, whose daughter Melory is to teach. The girl immediately made friends with her student and her father, but Rife Benedict both frightens and delights her. Not yet understanding the secret of her heart, she feels bitterness when Rife begins preparations for the reception of her dear guest, ballerina Sonia Martingale, and instructs her to organize a masquerade ball in honor of the arrival of a beautiful dancer at the estate...