The dynamic and impossibly gorgeous Earl Gabriel Westfield has landed in a mess. Unexpectedly, he has become the guardian to the orphaned eighteen-year-old daughter of a business partner from America. Complicating matters is a secret clause in her father's will mandating she be married by age nineteen to secure her inheritance, as well as Gabriel's family shipping interests. When tragedy strikes yet again his precocious ward is forced to flee Boston and start a new life in London where she and her best friend prove less than cooperative in securing her a betrothal. Rosabelle Elizabeth Anderson is a tiny spitfire who possesses an unusual knack with animals and is comfortable with her endearingly eccentric behavior. Boston considered her their darling, but London's social strata within the ton are far less accepting. In midst of the husband hunting debacle she is mortified to discover a mutual attraction between her and her cantankerous guardian. The question is will the guardian succumb to temptation, or will secrets from their past tear them apart forever...