As a gifted seamstress, Lady Susana Bigglesworth contributes to her family's livelihood by working as a modiste in a haberdashery shop in Leeds, far away enough from her home in Harrogate to prevent tongues from wagging about an earl's daughter being "in trade."

Blaise Arquette returns from nearly two decades of fighting the French to discover a pretty young lady seamstress working in his brother's haberdashery shop. Perhaps it's a good thing she's leaving for Harrogate and a Season in York, because, sadly, he has nothing to offer her.