Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch, and thirty-fourth in line for the throne, finds herself broke in London. After trying to earn money incognito at a cosmetics counter and as a housekeeper, she is tasked by the Queen to spy on the heir to the throne. Soon Georgie puts her sleuthing talents to work when an arrogant Frenchman, determined to gain control of her family's eight-hundred-year-old estate, ends up dead in her bathtub. Now her most important job will be to clear her family name.