The Governess with a Secret

You can’t escape fate. Lidia now has five charges, the cutest of whom is a three-year-old baby who hasn’t yet come under her care. But the other offspring of the Polesov family won’t let things be boring: the restless eight-year-old twins play pranks without rest, their thirteen-year-old brother, for quite good reason, is called “Mitrofanushka,” and their older sister has fallen in love with a completely unsuitable person—who, unfortunately, keeps coming by more and more often. Though even that can be endured—if only the Polesov family’s secrets weren’t so terrifying. And by the way, Lidia is not just a governess—she has her own secret.