Lord Benjamin is expected to find a suitable wife, Danielle is the daughter of a doctor and loves her independence. Benjamin would love to be left alone to get on with his life, but his father is badgering him to get married and secure their family’s future before ill health overtakes him. Of all the ladies in the ton, Lady Sophie seems the best of a bad bunch, and their fathers privately conspire to arrange a Christmas wedding, but she has a secret of her own. Danielle hears of the impending wedding and agrees to an engagement of her own. Christmas Day arrives, and a wedding takes place, but is it the one the Duke and St Clair expected?