He Was an Enfant Terrible... yet the pranks that little Lord Algernon visited upon his patient governess, Meriel Hathaway, were borne by her with good grace, until the morning he deliberately spilled blue ink over Meriel's pale gold curls. She slapped him, and she was dismissed with no references-and blue hair.

But all was not lost.

The handsome Lord Farr had a job for a blue-haired lady -impersonate a castle ghost; and since Meriel had a secret love for Lord Farr, she could not refuse him, no matter how bizarre, perilous unconventional—and heartbreaking—the assignment was.