Damaris Spenser has lived for years as a penniless orphan with her miserly grandfather. When she discovers she is in fact an heiress, she resolves to change her life. But in doing so a local fortune hunter attempts to coerce her into marriage. At the last moment, she is rescued by the enigmatic Lord Weald who talks her into a fake engagement to protect her good name. As time goes by though, he seems in no hurry to end the relationship.