Breakfast TV producer Petey Boy Topham dreams of producing the reality shows he loves to watch. When he finally lands a job on The Love Manor-a Regency-inspired dating show filmed at an actual country house-it's his golden ticket to his career ambitions. If he can impress his new boss, she might give him his own show.

William Winters is infamous in the tabloids as the "Bisexual Baron Buckford". But this rugby-playing, fantasy-novel-obsessed aristocrat never wanted the title or the media attention. After a family tragedy, he's inherited not only a crumbling manor house, but millions of pounds of debt. To save his estate, he's let The Love Manor's cameras in.

Each man would do anything to make the show a success. So when the contestants discover there's a real-life baron in residence and abandon the dating format to pursue him instead, there's only one solution: a fake engagement between producer and baron.

Living together in Buckford Hall's romantic folly, confident Londoner Petey Boy might be up for a no-strings fling with the sexy baron-but bookish William is far from the rake the papers make him out to be. Soon, what started as a desperate lie begins to feel dangerously real.

When news of their "engagement" leaks to the press and the consequences of their deceit spiral out of control, will their fake relationship survive the chaos long enough to become a reality?