Scars mar half of Duncan Laidlaw’s face, burns that are the legacy of a chemistry experiment gone bad. When he unexpectedly inherits a title making him Viscount Mildrum, he discovers a moderately prosperous estate, but he has also inherited a neglected and understaffed manor and three troubled young wards. He needs a housekeeper. He needs a governess. He needs a woman to manage his house. What he needs is a wife. When he asks his friend Micah Turner for help, he gets more than he bargained for. He gets a Twelfth Night Miracle.
Micah Turner and his wife Anne believe their friend Margaret Carter is the answer to Duncan’s prayers. Margaret has few choices in life, but traveling to Northumberland to marry a man she doesn’t know seems to her the worst possible option. Maybe she can convince the viscount to settle for a governess instead.