VISCOUNT OAKLEY, THE HANDSOME AND WEALTHY HEIR to the Tipton earldom should have no trouble whatsoever wooing women. After all, there is nothing a society lady likes more than someone of good fortune and family, who will also make them a countess one day, or at least that is how it seems for other young noblemen. And yet, dance after dance, flirtation after flirtation, he is always left standing alone. Somehow, in some way, he always manages to lose his heart to the wrong lady.

THE DISCOVERY OF THREE YOUNGER SISTERS put aside his nuptial worries for some time, intent as he was on seeing them situated in happy marriages. Alas, with that accomplished, all eyes are once again on him, all the family urging him to marry a suitable young woman and begin a family with her. Each of his sisters think they have just the lady for him and so begins a seemingly endless round of parties, each of them designed to present some matrimonial hopeful to his notice.