How many times can a rake get it wrong...before he becomes Mr. Right? The celebrated Penhallow Dynasty series continues in this deliciously witty and romantic Regency, perfect for readers of Eloisa James, Lisa Kleypas and Sarah MacLean.

How many times can a rake get it wrong...before he becomes Mr. Right? The celebrated Penhallow Dynasty series continues in this deliciously witty and romantic Regency, perfect for readers of Eloisa James, Lisa Kleypas and Sarah MacLean.

The celebrated Penhallow Dynasty series continues in this deliciously witty and romantic Regency, perfect for readers of Eloisa James, Lisa Kleypas and Sarah MacLean.

How many times can a rake get it wrong...before he becomes Mr. Right?

Philip Thane --- rogue, rake and scoundrel extraordinaire --- hadn’t wanted to visit some dumpy provincial town to give a speech, but he’d struck a devil’s bargain with old Henrietta Penhallow, the imperious family matriarch. Nor did he expect that once he got there, he’d somehow be living the same day over and over again. It’s strange! It’s terrible!

On the other hand, it is giving him time to cozy up to the delectable and brainy Margaret Allen, in town to research the book she’s writing. Philip is sure she’ll fall starry-eyed into his arms, just as women always do.

But to his amazement, Miss Allen stands firm against his wiles, day after day. How can she resist his seductive charm? Why won’t she change her mind? What must he do to win her heart?

Maybe --- just maybe --- it isn’t Margaret who needs to change, but rather a certain rogue, in love for the first time in his life, who will.

In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgment lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.

In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgment lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.

In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgment lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.

Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.

Until Frida has a very bad day.

The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their phones, letting their children get injured on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion.

Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.

A searing page-turner that is also a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of “perfect” upper-middle class parenting; the violence enacted upon women by both the state and, at times, one another; the systems that separate families; and the boundlessness of love, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS introduces, in Frida, an everywoman for the ages. Using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic.