Penelope is taken aback when her sister suddenly announces that she is leaving her fiancé and marrying the Count. To further elevate her status as a noblewoman, the Count recommends the sisters to be Queen Elizabeth's handmaidens. One day after she begins working at the court, Penelope is reunited with a man she has met. And it's Oliver! Her sister's former fiancé, the one Penelope has been in love with since she was a little girl. She never thought she would see him again in a place like this! Penelope is delighted, but then she learns that the court is often the scene of suspicious deaths of his master Lord Dudley's followers...?