Lucien Trent Blakewell, the fifth Duke of Blakewell, is more interested in card parties, horse racing, and carousing than in his estates and vast fortune. Blake is shocked when Miss Henrietta Tweed arrives on his doorstep and announces he’s her new guardian, that a family curse is on her, and her previous guardians all met an untimely end.

When Blake suffers a series of accidents, Henrietta knows she must free him from the cursed guardianship by accepting a suitor. Only Blake has just realized he wants nothing more than to marry her himself…