Daisy Merrick can't keep a job. Her confident optimistic outlook on life is put to the test when she loses her third job in six months, but she's sure she can find employment that suits her carefree personality. And she does...in the form of theatre critic. But her first review of a popular playwright is disastrous, especially when she is confronted by the very angry author himself. Sebastian Grant, Earl of Avermore, is not happy. How dare this...this critic call his work a piece of drivel! Never mind that he completely agrees with her. And to make it worse, his publisher is after him to finish his novel; so desperate, in fact, that he assigned Sebastian a writing partner - Daisy! Enemies at first sight, hatred quickly turns to desire. But will the temptations of Sebastian's dark past be too much to resist? Can Daisy dispel the darkness from Sebastian's soul and finally bring them both the happiness they so crave?