Resigned to spinsterhood, Amy Gibbon is astounded to receive a proposal of marriage from Viscount Charles Chard upon their very first meeting! Love quickly flares in her heart, but Charles is more reticent - he needs an heir, and this is a marriage of convenience. Determined to win her new husband over, Amy follows him to the Continent, where he must search for his father's precious signet ring which was stolen at Waterloo. Can true love blossom under such circumstances?
