Can a haunted cottage bring her the love she always yearned for?

Widow Lady Juliet Finch Hastings of Abercorn has nowhere to go when her brother-in-law forces her to leave her late husband's home. Plagued by sexy dreams of a mysterious man, she now must travel to haunted Brambling Cottage, her inheritance from her great-aunt. Generations of Finches have avoided the cottage for a reason, yet it's her only haven. Or rather, it and the man from her dreams who greets her upon her arrival.

Noah Kingman has been caring for Brambling Cottage since he turned sixteen, taking over what his father and grandfather had done before him. As a friend of the ghost that resides there, he's excited when his dreams fill with images of a young woman of the exact likeness of the past occupant, for he knows a Finch will finally return to the nest, an event he's waited for since a young boy.

Tanner Dunn must take the reins of the Rocky Road cattle ranch after his father's stroke. With a brother long gone, a brother deployed, and his youngest brother wanting to leave for his own career, he has his hands full. Still, he's adamant his father receives the best care. But when their adversary's daughter, Amanda Hayden Davis, arrives to provide his father's therapy because she's the best, it becomes more than he's willing to shoulder.

Amanda is not happy she's been assigned to the patriarch of the Dunn family, nor that she is the first Hayden to step foot on Rocky Road Ranch in over twenty years. But she's a ray of sunshine compared to the grumpy eldest son. When she's told to leave before she's started her work, she doesn't budge. No one tells her what to do. She willingly argues with Tanner, often winning. Despite that, she finds herself respecting his work ethic, his moral compass, and his heart. It doesn't help that he also has the shoulders of her dreams and looks amazing in a suit.

Tanner admits he's grateful for Amanda's efforts with his dad, but that doesn't mitigate the damage her family has done to them over the years. It's the Hayden's fault Rocky Road may have to become a Dude ranch, something Tanner has fought against for the last year. The problem is, he's fighting his attraction to Amanda as well. Not only is she kind, but she has a zest for life that he can't resist. But if he gives in to her, will he lose the ranch? Or will resisting her be the biggest mistake of his life?

He made her successful. So why does he feel like he's failed?

Lady Dorothea Ansley knows she baffles her mother and annoys her father with her prattle. Luckily, her fellow Curious Ladies are patient with her and great company during the season. But the season is coming to a close, and she is still without an offer of marriage. She needs a proposal quickly before her mother's wandering eye causes a scandal and all chances of marriage disappear. As she stands alone at the final ball, she unwittingly catches the attention of the Earl of Harewood, but in a very different way than she expects.

The Earl of Harewood is quite good at predicting what will occur next, whether it be an act in Parliament or the next couple to be betrothed, but he never would have predicted Lady Dorothea's conversation at the season's final fete would be of any interest to him. Curious if the moment was simply a serendipitous occurrence, he ensures that she's invited to his family's upcoming house party. She is the perfect lady for whom he could find a suitor and achieve his goal of improving the reputation of the Belinda School for Curious Ladies to best honor the woman after which it was named, the only woman he ever wanted to marry.

Though his social experiment is a success and multiple men have become enamored of Lady Dorothea, he is not at all happy. Yes, the lady has changed according to his sage advice, and she has taught him a few lessons on happiness in the process. By all rights, he should be basking in the glow of a goal reached, a victory hard won, but for the first time in his life, he fears he may, just possibly, have been wrong. Has he done the greatest disservice to Lady Dorothea, to the school, and to himself