Love is a beautiful thing, but can also cause total devastation. Detective Gabriel Laroche loved Rose, yet she deserted him. Now Gabriel has found a new lover, Amber Richardson, and they are engaged to be married. Rose has also fallen for someone else; a rival detective of Gabriel's, Robert Scott. He loves her dearly... or does he? Rose has started to doubt wether his feelings for her are real or wether he is simply using her to get at Gabriel. But she will never find out. For on the 10th of December 1909, as the engagement party of Gabriel and Amber is in motion, a life is lost, and old, buried feelings are brought to the surface. Will Gabriel Laroche be able to unveil the truth of the killing before the murderer strikes again?