Cara Danforth, a beautiful young woman with a fiery temper and the tenacity to match, is setting out to save her beloved home, Danforth House, and protect her three siblings from the ruination left in the wake of their father's death. Piecing together reasons for their current economic state, Cara devises a plan to take back what was rightfully theirs.

Arriving home after years in the field, Roland Acworth, the Duke of Fairhaven, pondered his current situation. He was a spy not a guardian. What on earth was he going to do with four small children? It would appear, he would have time to figure it out. For before he could venture to Danforth Estates, Roland's superiors tasked him with finding the thief responsible for a string of robberies amongst England's elite.