When her home situation becomes unlivable, Lydia hopes to escape through a marriage and her qualifications for her new husband are not long.
Unfortunately she's a too-old bluestocking with nothing to tempt a man into wedding her, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
The Duke of Manchester has been tricked and trapped into marriage with the quietly stunning Miss Lydia Stafford - he just doesn't know why.
She's not a fortune hunter, she's not a social-climber, and she's still a .