At the glittering Congress of Vienna, a chance encounter turns a lifelong betrothal into a hopeless muddle. Engaged since childhood to the formidable Field Marshal Georg von Hartenberg, Evangeline Stafford-Hill is quite certain her future husband must be cold, humorless, and old enough to be her father. Determined to see the truth for herself, she sets out to find him—only to discover that nothing about her betrothal, or her heart, is as she expected. And when love waltzes into the picture, the chaos is complete.