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Hell will freeze over before Miss Philomena Aubrey willingly marries the insufferable Honorable Luther Whyte. Her mother had angled Mina's quite hefty dowry in front of the vicar and secured him, but Mina still resisted. When Mrs. Aubrey threatens to force her into the marriage, Mina's father hides his daughter with a friend of his as he leaves for an extended business trip.

A wounded war hero, burdened by guilt after inadvertently sending his French fianc e to death, Lord James Darling keeps his family as far away from his tormented heart as possible. But as he keeps bumping into his mother's new lady's maid, he grows suspicious--is she a spy?--and sets out to expose her, only to find himself mesmerized by her feistiness and her warm heart.