Morgan Steer and Tom Marchant are a handsome, charming pair; each intent on marrying money. Hunting side by side, they trawl the London social scene, moving from one rich girl to the next.
But while Tom revels in the endless series of women, Morgan cannot forget his first love, Caroline Barstow, now married to someone else. It is with resigned desperation that he proposes to the icy, wealthy Chloe Post and takes her up to Northumberland to meet his family. Here, intense passions are rekindled, old jealousies are sparked and a steely determination sets in.
Everyone marries for the wrong reasons, usually because the bride brings money with her. But Morgan, who has been controlled by a sharp grandmother and aunts finally inherits and then decided to follow his own heart.