Michael Blake, a straight-laced English nobleman, desperately needs to marry an heiress. When he finds out that his intended bride -- and her much needed dowry -- have been romanced away from him by his own brother, he is forced to turn to the only other great heiress on the market.

Emma Marks is an American adventuress who has spent the last seven years traveling the world -- a bargain she made with her father in exchange for her promise to marry a titled aristocrat by the time she's twenty-five.

Can Emma help Michael deal with the ghosts of his past? And can Michael show Emma that she doesn’t need to travel the world to be happy because love is the greatest adventure of all?