Handsome, wealthy, and titled, the Viscount Delcourt has his pick of debutantes, and is in no hurry to settle down. When an old acquaintance of his father shows up, threatening to blackmail him into marriage with her daughter Lia, Delcourt must travel to London to try to stop her. Then he meets Lia, and suddenly things are more complicated than he thought. Is beautiful Lia Palmer a victim of her mother’s machinations, or a party to it? Will refusing to marry her bring to light a scandal in his father’s past that will threaten the happiness of his whole family? Does Delcourt even want to refuse?