Despite the barriers between them as servant and master, Dean and Lady Sarah have always been close, and lately, their relationship has been warming up even more. But everything is disrupted when Sarah’s family pushes her into an engagement with the wealthy and chauvinistic Count Van Der Sar, who only wants an innocent virgin for a wife. Sarah is determined to do whatever it takes to dissuade him from marrying her. Unfortunately, the ensuing love affair threatens to bring about not only her own ruin, but that of everyone she holds dear.