Mirabelle Leicester has always known that her husband Leon Gonsalez is the 'possessor of innumerable coats of arms, quarterings, family mottoes direct and affiliated' (in the words of Edgar Wallace), but since their marriage she has discovered that he also has a real family, including a revolutionary cousin from Barcelona and an aristocratic aunt. When the cousin asks for Leon's and Mirabelle's assistance in clearing his name, the investigation takes them to Spain: trailing kidnappers, dodging gunmen and encountering old friends.
Isabela Realm has tumbled into a spiral of disappointing love and a loss of the life she had always had. Now, as a man attempts to take what he believes to belong to the people he lives with, she can't help but follow him into their very own hell.
Why? Emotions are the only things she can follow, because they seem to be all that she has left.