Fleeing a party after romantic disappointment, Lady Adelaide Taunton accidentally alights into the wrong carriage. Alas, there is already a man in there - Harold Learmonth! Adelaide holds Harold responsible for breaking her heart, and the death of her eldest brother in a duel, and wants nothing to do with him. Alas, scandal ensues when practically all of society witness Adelaide exit Learmonth's carriage. The only solution is for them to marry, but this is only the beginning of their problems. Can they each get over their pasts to forge a future together? This novella follows soon after the romantic adventures of Adelaide's brother, Gerard Taunton, in Duke Around and Find Out.