Isabel Nobel, a parsons daughter with little wealth or dowry, is a naive sole. She is coerced to spend her first season in London with her meddlesome Godmother, Lady Dodsworth. Lady Dodsworth has a promise to keep - find Isabel a wealthy suitor and has a monumental ploy to do so.

To improve her prospects, Isabel becomes Lady Charlotte Dunbar - an orphaned heiress with ten thousand a year. Under this public façade she encounters the socially prominent Duke of Southdown an arrogant, staunch bachelor. Believing she has found love, painful revelations have repercussions for Isabel.

Will this end in betrayal and heartache? Or will love win through... A delightful story full of ruse and betrayal, romantic twists and turns and gripping escapade from the pen of Elizabeth Downton...