Miss Elsie Keating is the daughter of a vicar and a fallen woman, who harbours her own dark secret.

Nonetheless she bravely sets out to a new county, to alert the heir to a dukedom that he must come to Town, to fulfil his obligations to his family. She expects an elderly man who will be eager to accept his responsibilities, but Kit defies all of her expectations.

Kit Fitzsimmons is the heir to a cursed title, and believes no good can come from leaving Cornwall.

Having witnessed his familys bedevilment firsthand, the starchy gentleman is loath to accept his new nobility and the charming young lady who arrives unexpectedly on his estate, demanding he do as she says. The pair clash immediately, uncomfortable with the mutual attraction they feel.

Despite their class division and utter opposition of temperament, can these two learn to trust each other and escape their familial curses to find happiness?

Margot Keating has a dangerous secret about her birth, which no one in polite society can ever find out.

On entering the ton as a vicar's daughter and spinster, Miss Keating tries her best to keep out of mischief. This is easier said than done, since she is almost immediately thrown into a mystery, surrounding the murder of a prominent duke, some infamous missing diamonds, and–worst of all–Lord Langley, the most tempting rake in London.

Lord Silvester Beresford, Earl of Langley, is famed for his beauty, his charm, his orgies, and for never falling in love.

Thrown together in the most unconventional of ways, can these two opposites work together to uncover the truth about the duke's death, where the diamonds might be, and whether they actually have more in common than they previously ever thought possible?