"Fate is treacherous. Love is frail." When a hummingbird a mile away beats its wings a second too soon, a fraction of a degree too extreme, everything unravels for Rhea and Xander that fateful night at Last Call.

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.