Her parents’ loss of life has left Kelsey Langton penniless – and in charge of the well-being of her more youthful sister, Jean. Kelsey knows that the only way to avert their doom is normally to allow herself to become sold at auction. Resigned to becoming the plaything of the well-heeled gentleman, she gets more than she bargained for. Lord Derek Malory is the highest bidder – a dashing rakehell from a family of wonderful London rogues. Enthralled from the beautiful young female with shining eyes and dark hair, he buys her to become his mistress, unacquainted with the true well worth of his award. He never dreamed that this girl he so frivolously acquired would be blessed with all the current attributes he wanted within a wife – sophistication, wit, intelligence aswell as beauty. He certainly hardly ever expected to fall in love.