Miss Celina Forsyth was as sympathetic as she was sensible, and as generous as she was gentle -- which made her the perfect person to go to for aid and comfort.

Her twenty-six-year-old shoulders sagged with others' burdens. She had to find a husband for her beautiful but shy niece Lydia. She had to save her other niece, Nelly, from a ruinous elopement. And she had to run the household and further the schemes of her supremely selfish, unscrupulously social-climbing sister-in-law, Eleanor.

All this Celina could do with one brilliant stroke by helping any one of them make the catch of the year in the elegant, arrogant, and immensely wealthy Jervis Blain, Marquess of Wroxton -- if only she could stop this insufferably contrary man from ruining her perfect plan by wanting her....