Two exceptional young women refuse to follow the paths ordained by their situations. Both are blessed with minds that will not lie dormant beneath their bonnets, and both are destined to follow paths that could lead to scandal.
Charis is “ruined”, and pursues that role with enthusiasm, marching to a tune only she can hear. Jessie is beautiful, brilliant and a bastard. But her intelligence cannot hope to redeem her in the eyes of Society until Fate takes a hand on a rainy afternoon. The two gentlemen who find themselves enmeshed in the lives of these unusual women are in for an exciting gallop to passions unimagined and desires unbound.