In order to save her family from their desperate situation, Poppy gives up her dream, instead working as a housekeeper at a manor...until one day her mother sells a scandalous story to the press and upsets the lord of the house where she works. He orders the entire family to vacate immediately. Poppy begs her him for forgiveness-she has no other place to go. The next day, Gaetano makes an odd offer: he will save her family, if she becomes his fake bride...