Elizabeth had barely begun to enjoy her freedom from the subjugation of wedlock when her father, who had sold her into marriage once, prepared to sell her again. — Meanwhile, the insufferably arrogant Earl of Colchester, who emphatically did not want a wife, proposed she should become the latest on his list of mistresses. — Elizabeth thus had to choose between a monstrous marriage and a shameful situation.

But Elizabeth had another choice. She could choose to fight -- showing her father how undutiful a daughter could be... and teaching the infinitely experienced Earl a decidedly new lesson in love.