After quite literally falling on her face the year of her come-out, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Royal, daughter of a wealthy American Industrialist, has abandoned all notions of fitting into society and now teaches science and math at Miss Primm's.

London's golden lord, Damien Reddington, the Viscount Bloodstone, has a humiliating secret. Is it possible that Miss Addy, one of his sister's teachers, can be trusted with it?