Seeking a wife for his identical twin brother Trey, notorious lady-killer Clayton Hawthorne courts the young Miracle Cavendish while pretending to be Trey and finds himself falling for the beautiful miss himself.
After being wounded, Trey Hawthorne, Duke of Salterdon, once one of England's most eligible bachelors, finds himself alone, until the arrival of Maria Ashton, a lovely young nursemaid, begins to thaw his frozen heart.
Three years after being abandoned by Maria Ashton, the vicar's daughter with whom he had fallen in love, Trey Hawthorne, the future duke of Salterdon, discovers that his beloved had been confined in an insane asylum by his scheming and manipulative grandmother.
