When an American stranger turns up claiming to be the rightful owner of the school's magnificent country estate it could spell trouble for everyone at St Bride's . . ._x000D_No one can believe it when the headmistress Hairnet instantly accepts the stranger's claim not:_x000D_the put-upon Bursar ousted from his cosy estate cottage by the stranger_x000D_the enigmatic Max Security raring to engage in a spot of espionage_x000D_the sensible Judith Gosling who knows more about Lord Bunting than she's letting on_x000D_the irrepressible Gemma Lamb determined to keep the school open_x000D_Only fickle maths teacher Oriana Bliss isn't suspicious of the stranger after all she can just marry him and secure St Bride's future forever. That's if inventive pranks by the girls - and the school cat - don't drive him away first._x000D_Who will nab the stranger first? Oriana with the parson's noose? Gemma with sinister secrets? Or could this be the end of St Bride's?