Susan Lewis 
Dance While You Can 

It all started with a silly prank, a play and a dance — a love so enduring, so indestructible that it would survive against all odds.
Elizabeth Sorrill is the junior matron at Foxton»s élite School for Boys. Blessed with the kind of beauty others only dream about, her attractions prove irresistible to Alexander Belmayne, the seventeen-year-old son of the Lord Chief Justice. But their passionate affair is shortlived as bitter lies and scandal force them apart.
Angry and frustrated at Oxford, Alexander thrives on his reputation as a heartbreaker, until Bohemian beauty Jessica Poynter draws him into a fast life of glittering excess and depravity in London»s high society. But when a chance meeting brings Alexander and Elizabeth together again, their passionate reunion leads to a breathtaking crime fired by an overwhelming obsession — a hatred so violent it knows no limits…