Margaret Nicholson's life changes when her estranged grandfather names her heiress to his fortune, provided she learn society's expectations and marry before her twenty-first birthday.
Years of keeping away from that world leave her unprepared as suitors gather, though a newly entitled British marquess is the one who catches her eye.
Roger McKinley, a former poet marked by the Great War, spends his days as an accountant for Nicholson Building & Loan and his nights reliving the war, burdened by guilt over his brother's death.
Margaret, working as a secretary and unwilling to accept the limited place he has always assigned to women, disturbs the narrow rhythm of his life and stirs emotions he thought were gone.
She finds herself drawn to the troubled accountant even while the charming marquess courts her, and with her inheritance and birthday both closing in, she must decide which future she will follow.
