When Miss Sabrina Lambton, a spoiled, devious, young woman involves her new house guest in a plan to entrap the man she wants as her husband, she is not prepared for what will happen when the plan backfires and she is forced to marry another. man. When Louise's cousin marries, Louise is then sent to live with another relative. However, this time she is content with her lot and quite happy to be residing with her new guardian, a widow who takes her to live in Kent. When she meets a handsome stranger, she tries to fight her attraction to him.
When Lord Jason Rule narrowly escapes marriage to a deceitful young woman, he has no idea that when he is sent by his aunt to see over an estate in Kent, that he will meet the young woman who aided Miss Sabrina Lambton in her failed attempt to trick him into marriage.. Although he vows revenge on the woman, he cannot help but be attracted to her. There then follows a battle of wits and wills where neither will admit their true feelings, even when they are forced into a scandalous union. Will love triumph in the end?