Lady Cordelia Bannister has learned shortly before the book starts that her father had more or less offered her hand in marriage to the son of the man he wanted to strike a business deal with. Wanting to determine what matter of man she was supposedly going to marry Cordelia accosts the gentlemen coming from Daniel Sinclair’s current residents, playing Sarah the concerned companion to Lady Cordelia. Cordelia had it on good authority that at that time every morning Daniel’s secretary, Warren, takes a constitutional and he is just who she needs to talk to. Warren, currently being under the weather, was still in bed but his current employer, and friend, Daniel continued on anyway as had been their habit of late. When the very fetching Cordelia mistakes Daniel for his secretary with the tale of checking up on his employer, not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, he goes along with the lady. This leads to several more meetings, with the name deception on both ends remaining intact. As Daniel and Cordelia continue to become more and more involved both parties acknowledge, at least to themselves, the difficulties but can’t seem to stop seeing the other. The initial deception is revealed slowly in bits and pieces, both parties afraid their deception in and of itself would ruin their blooming relationship.
It was a cute book. The initial mistaken identities follow with revelations and deceptions on both sides. Both Daniel and Cordelia are ideally matched together and, whatever name they were using, they played very well off each other. The back and forth charades of both these characters ends up feeling like a historical screwball comedy, although not completely far-fetched in the story (fiction here). 
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Use the talents you have, for the woods would by silent if no birds sang except the best. (from a flip inspiration book-'Thoughts for my daughter')
