Ophelia Reid has a reputation for being difficult. She purposely ruins her arranged engagement to Duncan MacTavish because she wants to make her own choices. Raphael Locke, who is disinterested in marriage decides to show her the errors of her ways, introduces the new Ophelia to London society and the marriage proposals start pouring in. Only then does Rafe realize that he has fallen for Ophelia himself

James Malory sets sail for America to honor a promise that his and Georgina's daughter, Jacqueline, will have her coming-out in America. Jacqueline's cousin Judith is her inseparable best friend, and convinces her parents to allow her to go on the trip as well. Neither girl intends to fall in love during her first season, but there are surprises in store when Judith meets deckhand Nathan Tremayne.

Threatened by powerful enemies, William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish Highlands with his daughter Vanessa. When she comes of age William urges her to return to her mother in England to make her debut. Raised with all the advantages and freedom a boy would have, Vanessa doubts she can fit into the mold of a proper young lady. Still, she agrees to re-enter fashionable society, determined to end the vendetta against her...