Rejected by the woman he deeply loved, the incomparable Miss Milborne, for his unsteadiness of character, wild Viscount "Sherry" Sheringham is bent on avenging fate and coming into his fortune. Young Lord Sheringham could not gain his inheritance until he married, and on a passionate impulse, he vowed to marry the next woman he saw.

But the very first woman he sees is Hero Wantage, the young and charmingly unsophisticated girl who has secretly loved him since childhood. To orphaned, pixie-ish Hero, it seemed like a star-studded dream when dashing Lord Sheringham asked her to be his bride--for although she knew it was a marriage of convenience (his convenience), it eliminated the depressing prospect of life as a governess.

But their marriage soon became a frenetic comedy of errors, as Hero tried to keep up with the fashionable and very unfamiliar society in which she now found herself. From chariot races to gambling tables to exclusive drawing rooms, an exasperated Sherry followed in his wife's wake, trying to clear the air after her well-intentioned but scatterbrained escapades. And it was with great surprise that both Hero and Sherry discovered that even a marriage of convenience can turn into a love affair, under certain circumstances....