Anthea Latham has been abandoned by her brother and forced to travel to England and beg the mercies of a lord she's never met. Her plans are thrown into chaos when she discovers that the lord who holds her guardianship died some six months ago and his heir is none too happy about inheriting this commitment.

Adam Lawson was despised so greatly by his own father that before the old man died, he'd destroyed the family bank accounts with ill-advised investments and gambling. Now it appears he'd also tied him to the water logged waif that knocked on his door during the middle of a storm.

How will they learn to live together when their background is so vastly different?