"Throughout her high-flying civil service career, Francesca Wilson always appeared cool, assured and totally confident. Now married to policeman John McLeish and with a new baby, she is anything but confident about motherhood. An undemanding part-time job as Bursar to an all-female college seems just the tonic she needs, though life at Gladstone College turns out of be anything but relaxing. In fact for Francesca, sorting out the college's finances could be deadly. Drawing on her own experiences of studying at an all-female college and working in business and in the Civil Service, Janet Neel 'writes with knowledge and bite' according to the 'New York Times'. 'The Chicago Tribune' credited her with a 'solid police procedural that unstiffens a lot of upper - and lower - lips'." -- Back cover