Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess. Only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, she has just been hired at Ashton Place to take care of three children who were recently found in the woods on the estate. No one knows where they came from but they are more like wolves than children. They have been given the names Alexander for the eldest, Beowulf who is the next eldest, and little Cassiopeia who bite is far worse than her growl.
Penelope embraces the challenge of her new position. Though she is eager to instruct the children in Latin verbs and the proper use of globes, first she must help them overcome their canine tendencies in time for Lady Constance's Christmas party where they will be expected to mingle and dance the Scottishe, a country reel. Although the children are progressing nicely there are still questions that Penelope cannot answer and when the children come across a secret room that may hold more than dust bunnies Penelope begins to see there is more at work at Ashton Place than her young charges education.
A mystery is unraveling around Penelope and the children and what the reasons are are still unclear but Penelope is about to come to the understanding that sometimes the people you are uncertain of may be the only ones who can help.
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