Merlyn is fed up with men who approach her with an ulterior motive—to get to her father's money. So she makes a deal with her father that he won't force her to get married if she can live for a month without revealing her identity. Bravely accepting the deal, she moves out and lands a job as a live-in assistant to a novelist. The only problem is that she and her employer's banker son, Cameron, fight like cats and dogs. Then one incident changes the dynamic of their relationship...