Laura overhears her family talking and discovers that she has an incurable illness and not much time left to live. She's spent her whole life in late nineteenth-century England doing what her parents have asked of her and has never had a chance to fall in love. Now, with death looming, she decides to live what's left of her life the way she's always wanted. She's only met the mysterious Sean once before, but she decides to ask him to marry her. Laura offers him her inheritance if he'll help her travel and give her a taste of freedom...at least, for the time she has left.
After she learns that she's dying, heiress Laura decides to marry Sean, a private detective, and strike out on at least one great adventure before her time is up. They take a trip to Paris together, where Laura acts as Sean's assistant. Laura wants to live the rest of her life without regrets, so one night, she and Sean get carried away in the heat of passion! She starts to fall in love with him and everything changes... But now one of Sean's cases may threaten Laura's safety and, to top it all off, Laura's doctor tells her that she's pregnant! When Sean finds out, he treats her coldly and tells her that she tricked him! What is she to do?