Countess Seraphina lost her parents at a young age and has been fulfilling the role of her estate’s lord in place of her younger brother.
At one grand ball, she saves the life of Duke Maynard. Their encounter leads to a contract marriage. But the duke immediately reveals: “I already have someone I love.”
This sets off a romance of a realistic noblewoman and a handsome, troubled duke—“I didn’t expect to be so deeply loved by the man who said he loved someone else.”