Wallflower Miss Katherine Danvers has always been. She now finds herself a desperate wallflower, with her family on the verge of bankruptcy. She will do anything to protect her family. Fortunately, she has the ideal strategy. By merely announcing her engagement to Alexander Masters, the mysterious and secretive Duke of Thornton, she will please the gentry and ensure good matches for her sisters. The duke hasn't been heard from in a long time. She may return to her own quiet life knowing that he won't learn the truth until her sisters' nuptials. But before long, things spiral out of control. At initially, the duke's accounts only show a few brand-new ball gowns. Interviews with reporters looking for gossip follow. Before Katherine knows it, she has changed into Kitty Danvers, the lovely and astute belle of the ton, who is eagerly awaited by everyone to meet her thankfully absent fiancé.