One night's indiscretion ... a ruined reputation ... a hurried wedding.
Harriet Pomeroy, at the grand old age of 25, is perfectly capable of handling herself. In fact, she's more concerned with the reputation of her outsize fiancé, Gideon Westbrook, aka the Viscount St. Justin, aka The Beast of Blackthorne Hall, who supposedly abandoned another woman after bedding her.

After her unconventional engagement, Harriet leaves the backwater of Upper Biddleton in search of polite polish during London's season. Making the best of a bad situation proves to be the adventure of a lifetime for these two seemingly contradictory personalities, one which leads them to the discovery that opposites do indeed attract -- and also fall in love.