Since childhood, Eloise has been in frail health, so she gave up the high society and now lives in the countryside of Felthem to take care of herself.
One day, while happily going back and forth to Blissbury Manor, which her father’s friend had entrusted her to manage, she hears the news that a new caretaker will be arriving.
But that means the nude portrait she has secretly been painting of her favorite, Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Wilgrave, is in great danger of being discovered.

Before the new caretaker arrives, Eloise tries to discreetly retrieve the painting, but on the stairs she comes face-to-face with him…

—You’ve never seen the model in person, have you, Miss Eloise?
It’s not this small.

From that day on, Eloise and Ryan —a namesake of her “favorite” and someone she thought she’d never meet— keep getting entangled with each other, until eventually, they find themselves falling deeper and deeper…