Prince Finue of New Zealand is in love with a young English lady called Henrietta. They are both in their final few weeks at St. Thomas' College and are both painfully shy.
There is a small problem of there being no time for a courtship, tribal whānau approval and the Eyes of the King who is hell-bent on keeping them apart and has devised a challenge that gives them only a one in five thousand chance of success. Fortunately prince Finue knows Sam Felstead, a particularly cunning and effective Australian, who thinks he can narrow those odds.
It's a Sherlock Holmes style mystery with humour and rude bits.