The second son of the Davenport Ducal House and the top student at Arkansis Royal Academy. And officially, the best scumbag at the Academy, second to none. A man who seemed like proof of an unfair world. So different from herself, who was desperately trying to escape her own trashy family. Tilia Ambrose hated Ilex Davenport. But who would have known? That she would end up in the same bed as that prestigious scumbag.

A renowned matchmaker of London high society, a twenty-nine-year-old 'old maid.' Both contrasting modifiers refer to Laura Pendleton. She receives a request to find a match for a man named Ian Dalton. However, the person he proposes to, who by all accounts is a top bachelor, is none other than Laura herself.

After reincarnating into a novel she once read, Marin Schventz lives in poverty with her ailing mother. Though she's only a background character, desperation pushes her to use her only advantage: her knowledge of the original plot. When she begins working at the castle of the blind Duke of the West-whose fate is set to end in tragedy-everything changes as he unexpectedly asks her to enter an engagement that may alter both their destinies.