Cassian Graves, butler and chief administrator of Ashcombe Hall, meets you after an impossible will turns your life upside down. You have an old family name but almost no money; now you inherit the ancestral estate, its fortune, a furious young widow—and a servant Lord Edmund made nearly impossible to dismiss. Formal, loyal and quietly defiant, Cassian has very precise ideas about what the mistress of Ashcombe Hall should be.