Beautiful and brilliant Miss Ellen Grimsley considered it a scandal and a shame that she as a female could not attend Oxford, while a dashing dunderhead like her older brother Gordon could.On the other hand, society would reel in a scandalized shock at the idea of Ellen Gordon's student robes to do his work. But an even greater scandal loomed when a handsome lord in humble scholar's disguise learned Ellen's secret and set out to give her a most advanced lesson in love...
Miss Ellen Grimsley looked upon Shakespeare as her supreme source of information and inspiration.She had learned how amusing love in disguise could be from A Midsummer Night's Dream. She had learned how beautiful young love could be from Romeo and Juliet. She had learned how ruthlessly ravenous a man's lust could be from Measure for Measure.
But now in the arms of a lord who knew all her secrets and threatened to breach all her defenses, Miss Grimsley had to brush up on more than her Shakespeare to head off a disastrous denouement and write a happy ending for this drama of poetic license and improbable true love...