Making a splash in Society is not Lady Henrietta's goal in life. However, by eighteen she is sopping wet and has caused enough scandal in her home county to send all the gossips for their smelling salts. Her desires in life are at odds with the expectations placed on her by her position and gender. In desperation, she turns to a life of secrecy only to be found out by a duke with dark secrets of his own.
Mischievous matchmaking may be Henrietta's only path to personal freedom. Will the set-up of the nineteenth century secure her happiness? Or will she be like a fish out of water and drown on dry land?