Nobody misses Lord & Lady Hartwell's Christmas Ball, . . . but they all go for different reasons.

When Lady Sybil runs off with an Italian portrait painter, her bastard half- sister Jane Tate goes in her place. Lord Eddleton plans on proposing to "Sybil" under the mistletoe. Lady Darvish is on the hunt for her fifth husband. And Ian Michael MacGarrett, the head groom with more than horseflesh on his mind, is determined to show Jane that love doesn't have to pretend.