Not absolutely all dukes are manufactured equal. Most are upstanding users of Society. And there’s the trio known as Their Dis-Graces.

Hugh Philemon Ancaster, seventh Duke of Ripley, will never win awards for virtue. But actually he attracts the line at running off with his best friend’s bride-to-be. All he’s trying to do is certainly recapture the somewhat inebriated Woman Olympia Hightower and return her to her meant bridegroom.

For reasons that elude her, bookish, bespectacled Olympia is meant to marry a striking rake of the duke. The lot can be flabbergasted. Her family’s ecstatic. And Olympia? She’s climbing out of a window, bent on a getaway. But high, dark, and exasperating Ripley is normally hot on her behalf trail, determined to create her back again to his friend. For once, the world-famous hellion is trying to accomplish the honorable issue.

Why does Olympia need to produce it therefore deliciously difficult for him . ?