Caroline needed a home and a job -- but her rich cousin Grace had made it very plain that she needn't turn to her for help.
So when Grace's over-whelming friend Randall Craig offered Caroline a job instead, it seemed a little unreasonable for Grace to object. After all, what kind of competition was Caroline likely to offer to the stunningly beautiful Grace?
FMC is a head-in-the-clouds doormouse who is completely inept at real life and real people, and not in an adorably dim Chrissy Snow kind of way, either -- she's frustratingly stupid, useless, and occasionally defiant. Luckily, her pretty face is enough for the irascible, alpha MMC. There was no chemistry between them and no romance whatsoever.