Lyrissa Rideau is on the hunt for a priceless painting that rightly belongs to her family. An art expert, she finds a way to get inside the wealthy and powerful family that has possession of it. She's working her plan and planning her work to get her hands on the heirloom worth tens of thousands. There's only one thing standing in her way, painfully gorgeous Noel St. Denis. She can't stop the heat she feels when he's close by that distracts from the prize. Worse, he's not the bad guy she'd expected him to be; and he wants her, too. Lyrissa and Noel are on different sides of the tracks, but they don't stay that way for long. Soon they're caught up in a hot romance. They have to fight a family feud, and allegations of crime to get some love.