When the Crimean War ends, Major Jackson Corbin returns to England to live his dream: to open Jackson's Gentleman's Club. But when he is appointed to keep the accounts for the new railroad line being built to connect Willowbrook to London, in addition to his already full-time job of keeping the accounts for his thriving gentleman's club, he realizes that keeping the two accounts will be a bigger job than one man can handle.

His partner suggests he hire Miss Magdalena Osbourne, even though he is convinced a lady has no business working in a gentleman's gaming club, especially the daughter of a vicar. But after five minutes in her presence, Jack is smitten by her perfect demeanor and her angelic features. If only he can convince her that loving him will not prevent her from fulfilling the promise she made her parents – that she would always care for her blind sister.

But what Jack doesn't count on is a man who will do anything in his power to steal the profits from the railroad account to cover his gambling debts – including murder.

Only time will tell if spending her massive wealth to purchase Phillip Eversley, the Duke of Markham is the best or worst purchase Violet has ever made.

A wounded Major Phillip Eversley returns from the war to discover his father and brother are both dead and he is now the Duke of Markham. He also discovers that before their deaths, they went so deeply into debt that even if Phillip sells every unentailed property he now owns, he can never save the one property he loves most　his grandmother's home, Parkland Estate.

Because of the massive wealth her father left her, Lady Violet Slushman becomes one of the wealthiest women in London. The former wallflower is now besieged with suitors desperate to marry her – but only for her money. She is left with no choice but to go to Mrs. Bessie Dove-Lyon, the black widow of Whitehall, renowned owner of the Lyon's Club. Mrs. Dove-Lyon is known throughout London as the one and only person who can find a way to erase any scandal and make a match for anyone seeking one. And Violet is desperate to find a husband to protect her from the money-hungry letches. She only has two requirements, that the man Bessie Dove-Lyon chooses for her puts her wealth to good use, and he is not so handsome that he makes her plainness more obvious.