The more Lady George Rutherford defies him, the more the Duke of Everingham pursues her, until an argument at a ball spirals into a passionate embrace. caught in a compromising position, the duke announces their betrothal. George is furious and when gossip claims she deliberately entrapped the duke - when she was the one being trapped - she marches down the aisle in a scarlett wedding dress. But the unlikely bride and groom may have found love in the most improbable of places - a marriage of convenience.