What do you do when you discover you may be married to a villain?

Lady Juliet Ferrers's response is to deny, deny, deny the marriage. Then, in desperation, she declares she's already married to someone else—anything to make the man who abused her leave her alone. But with all her family from home, Juliet fears the villain may spirit her off to his home in France, never to be heard from again.

Until a stranger calls...

When Captain Amiable Dawson tries to pay a call on an old friend, he runs headlong into a dramatic scene complete with damsel in distress threatened by a dastardly villain. What's a gentleman to do? Pretend to be the damsel's husband, of course.

But the ruse won't stop the villain for long. Unless it changes from ruse to reality.

And then Juliet is left to wonder if she's married to one man or two?