Suzette is not like other heiresses; she wants a poor husband, a gentleman who will be so grateful for her dowry that he will allow her access to it so that she can pay off her father´s gambling debts. When this alluring beauty encounters Daniel Woodrow - handsome, titled, single and even more impoverished than she could have hoped for - it seems Suzette´s wildest dreams have come true. But Daniel has not been truthful. Tired of being accosted by an endless stream of vapid coquettes and their fortune-hunting mothers, Daniel has decided to plead poverty to stop them in their tracks. Yet here is a most refreshing and delectable lady, who claims to be thrilled by his penury. Now all Daniel has to do to find true happiness is to keep a little white lie alive while avoiding a villain who´s determined to prevent this union by any means necessary.