Tired of the fortune hunters who make the rounds of the ballrooms of Mayfair, adventurous Lady Amelia Plume is finding London high society much more exciting since the arrival of Major Lucas Winter, an American with a dark and dangerous past.

At eighteen, Charlotte Page made a life-altering mistake. She wronged a man in an impulsive act that she came to deeply regret, though it led to her present life as Mrs. Charlotte Harris, owner of Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies. Unbeknownst to her, that man is now her anonymous benefactor, the mysterious "Cousin Michael." His masquerade began as preparation for a devastating revenge, but soon became a labor of love. Now Charlotte desperately...