Peaches Alexander is thrilled to receive an unexpected invitation to a weekend party given by the handsome, eligible Duke of Kenneworth. The only problem: Stephen de Piaget, a stuffy medieval studies scholar who seems determined to get in the way. Peaches has absolutely no desire to get involved with Stephen, until a quirk of fate sends her hurtling through time…Stephen de Piaget has been leading a double life: respectable professor by day, knight-in-training...

After a magical sword transports her back in time to thirteenth-century Scotland, Imogen Maxwell finds herself drawn to the sword's owner, Phillip de Piaget, who takes her for his reluctant fiancee and insists that they marry.