Lady Kate Helleston must find a husband for herself or her childhood home will be sold. She must also find a respectable suitor for her ward, Miss Beecham, who dislikes respectable men. A frothy, fun romp through Regency England with not one but two romances twining around and interfering with each other. There are also serious issues hinted at in the subtext, as in Fruchey’s first novel; this time, the heroine has in the past been a victim of spousal rape, a happening that was then as in our own time a problem, but not to be defined or mentioned for another several hundred years.