If love is the ultimate prize, then the perils of courtship are the necessary trials and tribulations one must endure in its pursuit.

It is a blessing for the society debutantes of London, then, that Cupid’s arrow should be guided by the dainty hand of Miss Laura Pendleton, granddaughter of Countess Pendleton and the city’s finest matchmaker.

When Laura’s self-ascribed duties call her to befriend the stoic and saturnine Mr. Ian Dalton of Whitefield, however, she soon finds that when it comes to the grand contest of love, it may well be every woman for herself…