Yvette Hamilton knows exactly what gift she would like for Christmas - an enviable marriage with the heir to the dukedom, albeit for convenience. A suitable groom has already been selected, and things are heading towards an engagement, but then fate makes its own amendments to her plans...

The illegitimate Geoffrey Eddington hated the society that accepted him with a condescending grin, and the proud Yvette seemed to him a typical high-society thing . And then, enraged by her coldness, Geoffrey vowed: the unapproachable Miss Hamilton will become his wife at all costs...

The hunt begins, but gradually Geoffrey’s excitement turns into true love, tender and ardent. But what will Yvette choose? A passionate feeling of a real man or a coveted title?