Thomas Whitmore has struggled his entire life to fit in with upper-class British society despite his long-standing friendship with Charles Ashford. Charles invites Thomas to spend the summer at the prestigious Ashford Hall, where he meets Arthur, Lord Ashford, and the spark between them flashes to fire. Can they navigate class differences, the attitudes of the early Victorian era, the machinations of the gentry, and a shadowy plot against Ashford Hall itself?