She's a down-on-her-luck tutor. He's a baron in disguise...Joanna works as a tutor for an aristocratic family...until her employer assaults her and his wife forces her out of their house. Without money, a referral or any job opportunities, she decides to ask her brother for help, so she goes to the residence where he works as a manager...only to discover he's been fired and is long gone! When the new manager, Ned, tells her she can stay if she agrees to be his mistress, she slaps him without thinking... Little does she know that Ned is actually a baron who's hiding his identity so he can investigate certain mysterious events...