Augusta Jane Hawthorne lives a boring life in New York City in 1911. When her father decides it's time for her to marry, she's less than pleased. None of the eligible bachelors interest her, and she'd be more than happy just living her life as an old maid. That is, until a street urchin named Philip Blackson finds out her darkest secret. When her father's friend, a disgustingly charming man thirty years her senior starts to court her, Augusta makes friends with an unlikely source, hatches a plan, and fights for what she wants. But it isn't going to be easy...