Once the toast of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Lloyd left a string of misfortune behind and traveled to England to become a mere governess for an upper-class British family. Her American hijinks and high-spirited ways are not always appreciated, nor is her refusal to act like an empty-headed ninny with gentelmen. But when her beauty catches the eye of none other than the Prince of Wales, Constance is suddenly a social sensation - and finds herself proposed to by the son of the Duke of Hastings!
But as she waltzes in the halls of royalty, Constance is less than madly happy - for she is filled with doubts about her fiance and his secrets. Then she meets her intended's best friend, Joseph Smith, an all too handsome, self-made man. Now, about to embrace the privileged life she's always desired, Constance begins to dream of a forbidden and unexpected love - with the one true prince in Britain's glittering palaces.
