title: Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
author:  Beatrice Sparks 
description: Beatrice Sparks is a family and adolescent therapist who edited the diary that formed the basis for <em>Go Ask Alice,</em> and has since edited many diaries on topics such as gangs, AIDS, and teen pregnancy in the 1988 Annie's Baby. She lives in Provo, UT.
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  An Unlikely Governess
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Karen Ranney
  
  She had no recourse but to accept the position…
  
  Impoverished and untitled, with no marital prospects or so much as a single
  suitor, Beatrice Sinclair is forced to accept employment as governess to a
  frightened, lonely child from a noble family—ignoring rumors of dark intrigues
  to do so. Surely, no future could be as dark as the past she wishes to leave
  behind. And she admits a fascination with the young duke's adult cousin,
  Devlen Gordon, a seductive rogue who excites her from the first charged moment
  they meet. But she dares not trust him—even after he spirits them to isolation
  and safety when the life of her young charge is threatened.
  
  … and no choice but to fall in love.
  
  Devlen is charming, mysterious, powerful—and Beatrice cannot refuse him. He is
  opening new worlds for her, filling her life with passion… and peril. But what
  are Devlen's secrets? Is he her lover or her enemy? Will following her heart
  be foolishness or