Sonnets for Eliza

Eliza, a vicar's daughter, is spending her second and final social season with her sister in London, hoping to find a husband. Given her modest dowry and rather inconspicuous beauty, she isn't surrounded by many suitors. She finds it difficult to make conversation with the young men of her age, as she is not very skilled in superficial coquetry.

Lord Stratham considers Eliza an schemer who has designs on his widowed father, whom she has befriended by chance. He feigns an interest in her to protect his father from her. However, it turns out that they have more in common than they would have expected…