If Henry Wright could not find a wife in a short period of time, he would lose the legacy he desired. Frederica Sayers needed a husband to save her from the life of shame that awaited her when she fled the callous cruelty of her family. A marriage between them was clearly the answer, until the duke discovered he had a duchess he could not tame and the duchess found that she would rather lose her reputation than lose the duke to another woman who was everything she was not.