Anxious to foil a plot to assassinate the Prince Regent, Lord Damian Manton masquerades as The Fox only to discover the spy he captures is not a man but a woman, the beautiful Lady Serena, daughter of a duke. He is attracted to her, but knows he could never love a woman who loves another. Lady Serena Hendricks yearns for excitement. Riding dressed as a man leads her to the most dangerous adventure of her life when she meets attractive highwayman, The Fox. When she accidentally learns he is an aristocrat in disguise, she sets about winning the stuffy marquis as her husband. In spite of his yearning for a wife who loves him for himself rather than for his disguise, Damian becomes hopelessly entangled in the net of Serena's bold schemes. Will her tenacious persistence disgust him or change his mind when he discovers the truth?