The grandson of the Scottish clan laird, Duncan MacTavish is shocked to learn that his other grandfather was an English marquis whose title and London estate he’s now required to take on. Worse still, he is involved to a stranger who has mocked him in public. But his bride-to-be, Ophelia, has been guiding a pleasant and witty, if dreadfully inexperienced, country girl named Sabrina through the latter’s all-important first coming-out period. The charming Sabrina enthralls Duncan much more than his own intended will, and she stocks his passionate feelings aswell. But duty and situation – and also a scandal in Sabrina’s family past – possess made it impossible for her and the dashing highlander to be together . unless real love can somehow, miraculously, discover a way.