Robert Edenhall, the Duke of Devonbrook, had once been a dashing second son, a man without a worry or care, before a terrible tragedy took nearly everything from him. Retreating to a remote castle in the Scottish Highlands, he thinks to live out his days in broken solitude. But he never expected he would soon discover a mysterious young woman trespassing in his home.

Lady Augusta Brierley has decided to live life on her own terms, and certainly not those of the London ton. She does things ladies are forbidden to do; she shuns society, she studies the stars, and Augusta cares not what anyone else may think.

But is really Augusta the scheming femme fatale who Lord Noah Edenhall believes lured his lifelong friend to his death? Everything about her seems to indicate that she is, and Noah determines he must avenge the terrible wrong he suspects this woman has done. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the magic that happens when these two opposing personalities finally cross paths.

Lady Grace Ledys is young and naïve, an innocent when she is left little choice but to enter an arranged marriage in order to restore her family’s financial security. Her intended groom, Christian Wycliffe, is the handsome, much-sought-after heir to the Duke of Westover. In effort to appease her misgivings about their most transactional union, Grace allows herself to dream of a fairytale filled with glittering ballrooms, romance, and happily ever after.

In effort to escape from a newly-revealed and terrible truth, Eleanor Wycliffe flees her former life as an heiress and gently-bred society miss in London. She happens upon an advert inquiring after a governess, and decides to seek the anonymity of a remote Scottish island, whose laird is reputed to be plagued by a curse.