Just when she thinks she is out of options, respectable Miss Lydia Worthington receives a mysterious letter offering her employment as governess to the three wards of the roguish Earl of Blackburn. When he thinks he’s about to lose his family’s estate to debt, Aiden Blakely, Earl of Blackburn, returns home to search for the lost treasure of the Blackburns, a fabulous diamond necklace. Together they search Blackburn Manor for the necklace, but solving the clues left by a feisty ancestress proves easier than fighting the passion between them.