Annabel Winslow is horrified to discover her grandfather plans to have her marry the Earl of Newbury, a man who had once courted her grandmother! The Earl despises his nephew, Sebastian Grey, who will inherit all, including the Earl’s title, fortune and home, unless the Earl can produce a son to replace Grey. Hence, his decision to marry the young and beautiful Annabel. One night at a ball, horrified by the Earl’s lecherous attack on her, Annabel runs outside to escape him, and trips over a dead body seated on the ground. Only instead of being dead, the body is one young, dashing and flirtatious Sebastian Grey.