There are conditions attached to the late Lord Tomlinson’s bequests. After the death of her fiancé, Sarah Tomlinson has no plans to marry, so she resents the condition forcing her to return to society. Worse, the first person she meets in Brighton is the man she should have wed.

Terrance, Lord Repton, is evading the newest candidate for his bride that his aunt has thrown at his head. Discovering his Sarah is not dead as he’d believed, he is more determined then ever he’ll not succumb to a marriage of convenience.

To complicate things, the heir to the ghost’s title firmly believes Sarah’s little house should be his. If that were not enough, two unacceptable men decide for different reasons that Sarah will do very well as their bride. Sarah wants desperately to turn to Terrance for help, but dares not—lest her true reason for refusing to marry is revealed.