When Will Trevaron inherits the title Marquess, his grandfather demands he leave his beloved America and sail back to England. Not wanting to obey, Will hits on the perfect solution: a marriage of convenience to Maggie Carter. A union with a "nobody from the colonies" would shock and horrify his family and rescue from poverty the woman who once saved his life. Will doesn't expect to fall for his wife. But as Maggie sets his household straight about what exactly an independent lady from a savage country would and would not accept, the new marquess sees that her loving husband aside his marchioness has a will of her own.