Viscount Rexley's family fortune is on the brink of bankruptcy and his father is being blackmailed. Marrying an heiress to protect their fortune and family name is the only solution, but before he can begin his search, he has a dawn appointment to keep. Lady Patience is impetuous, impulsive and impossible. But her parents have a plan to secure a marriage, and their daughter's future intending to find a gentleman of noble birth (with deep pockets), who has NEVER met their daughter, but first she intends to stop her childhood friend from getting killed in a gentleman's duel.