Forced to share her introduction to society with her beautiful, vivacious sister, Elizabeth fears the worst. When her dance partners question her about her sister, while gushing about her beauty and wit, Elizabeth sends them away and retires to the bench with the wallflowers.

Not prepared to be ignored, Elizabeth organises the wallflowers to go for a stroll each evening, causing disapproval from her mother and sister. The stroll brings a man into the sphere of the wallflowers, until Hannah, Elizabeth's sister, sabotages the relationship for a supposed slight against her.

The season continues with more disappointment and heartache until Elizabeth meets a man whom her father refuses to allow her to court. Not to be outdone, Elizabeth has some tricks up her sleeve, but when her father threatens to marry her to a man she doesn't know, Elizabeth flees.

Can Elizabeth finally follow her heart, or will meeting Lord Richardson cause her more heartache?