Lady Elizabeth Selford has cause to dislike Lord David Brownlee. He's unjustly insulted her. Now he suspects her of assisting Princess Caroline, the Princess of Wales, to steal one of the Crown Jewels. He changes his tune when she helps foil not one but two attacks on the Royal Family. When she becomes a target, he kidnaps her to his country estate, properly chaperoned, of course. He doesn't understand his attraction to her. More plots threaten the realm. When the Prime Minister is assassinated, he and they return to London. The French are desperate to disrupt England during the war against Napoleon. They aren't finished.