Arabella Cullingham may have been fooling herself about her latest flirtation, but her sharp-eyed brother and guardian is another matter. That young gentleman determines that a Season in London is what his pretty sister needs to mend her broken heart.

Enter the dashing Earl of Magdalen, a confirmed bachelor whose female acquaintances run to women of dubious reputation. Spying Arabella unchaperoned, he takes her for a lightskirt? Bell, for her own reasons, needs must play along, never thinking that the game might cost her the man she loves....