Twin sisters Patience and Prudence Waverly arrive in London from Philadelphia to claim an inheritance and Patience discovers she is now a Baroness, despite the fact that she has no time for uppity English aristocrats. Prudence is determined to marry a title of her own and sets her cap at Max Purefoy, the future Duke of Sunderland and the most seductive scoundrel she has ever met. But Max finds Patience much more interesting. With whom shall Max attach himself?