Laura Irving spends her days helping in the family farm, still mourning her brother's sudden death.

Alexander Conner, Duke of Farnworth, is the epitome of what how a Duke should live an act. Cold and aloof on the outside but lonely on the inside, his boring life changes the day he hires Laura to be the new governess of his unruly sister.

When a dangerous man appears at the Irving household's doorstep claiming unpaid debts, Laura is given a choice: see her family suffer...or kill the Duke of Farnworth.