Selene Lockhart's father is unloving, manipulative and power-hungry. He wants a male heir, and Selene – his eighth daughter and youngest child – is being used to give him what he wants, since her seven older sisters have failed to produce a son. And Sir Lockhart has threatened to kill any females she gives birth to...not only that, but she is engaged to a forty-year-old pot-bellied alcoholic whom she detests! What will she do?