Miss Emilie Catesby's choice:
a convenient marriage or ruin!

Miss Emilie Catesby lives to paint-but when her mother threatens to take her oils away if she doesn't marry she must either recklessly ruin herself or marry jaded Lord Marcus. When she finds herself compromised into a marriage of convenience with Marcus her decision is made for her! However, she's surprised to discover that her wifely duties hold much more appeal than her paints...