Miss Evangeline"Lina" Cary's life takes a sudden turn when she attends her first season in London. The innocent heiress experiences more than she bargains for when she encounters the Duke of Shrewsbury, Lord Henry Montrose.
"You call yourself a gentleman and yet there is nothing gentle about you. Not your actions or mannerisms, or your hateful words. You are every bit of a callous, unpleasant man that you, yourself, despise. This self-hatred resonates out of you and its poisonous!"