Baton Rouge, Louisiana—1892. When lady's companion Aria St. Angelo is coerced into posing as her political employer's absent daughter for the evening at the Louisiana Governor's masquerade ball, she wasn't planning on falling for Byron Roderick, the most eligible bachelor in the capitol. Byron Roderick is quite taken with the woman he knows as Mildred Beaumont, but when he discovers the lady's true identity, more than just his heart is at stake.