Lilith Farrar's job is not easy. She rubs shoulders with socialites, diplomats, the President of the Western Union, even choice members of the British Peerage, all in the name of keeping secrets. Hired by her husband to keep his personal life private, she is exceptionally good at managing his affairs. Good, that is, until something goes terribly wrong at a weekend retreat and threatens to blow their cover wide open.

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.