8Society blue-stocking Lilith Fitzgilbert is the last person anyone would expect to create a scandal. Maverick antiquarian Edward Makepeace is the last person anyone would expect to take on a female scholar. When Lilith perforce retires from London for a month to join Edward's excavation of the Devil's Ditch near Newmarket, neither of them expects to find a run-down house and a dead butler. Nor, on top of everything else, do they expect to fall in love...