Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men. Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, is here with orders to gather a militia. It's a simple mission, made complicated by the spirited, exquisite Susanna Finch -- a woman determined to save her personal utopia from the invasion of Bram's makeshift army.