The spirited and independend Miss Annis Wychwood is...
twenty-nine and well past the age for falling in love. But when Annis embroild herself in the affairs of a pretty runaway heiress, Miss Lucilla Carleton, she is destined to see a great deal of her fugitive’s uncivil and high-handed guardian, Mr. Oliver Carleton. Befriending the wayward girl brings unexpected consequences, among them the conflicting emotuons aroused by her guardian, who is quite the rudest man Annis has ever met...