Grayson Delaney knows what it's like to do something so horrific he can never be forgiven. As penance, he lives up to everyone's low expectations. But when his father tires of his wastrel existence, Gray is forced to earn his living by running the brewery his father won in a card game. Now, he must learn everything about working in the brewery, while proving to the woman he loves that he's nothing like her spendthrift father.

Lady Margaret Bradford has one passion - the brewery that's been in her family for generations. But from the moment Gray Delaney enters her life, she realizes she's not only in danger of losing her brewery, but of losing her heart - to a man exactly like her father. Now, she must not only safeguard the brewery from mysterious accidents, but protect her heart from a man who causes her to lose control of her emotions at every turn.