England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned a place among the first cohort of female students at Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. Her challenge: not to give in to the attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke.