A dying promise to protect her....After his best friend is shot in a senseless duel, Benedick makes his dying friend a promise to watch over his sister, who just happens to also be named after the heroine in the same play he was named for, and whom he has always hated. When Benedick returns to London after the Napoleonic Wars, however, he finds himself having to escort his nemesis Beatrice from ballroom to ballroom. Instead of being disgusted by her, Benedick finds himself attracted to the very woman he has despised for years, and if that weren't enough, the very man who killed Beatrice's brother returns to London to claim Beatrice for his own! Benedick must struggle through his own feelings before Beatrice, and his very happiness, is lost to him forever.