Arabella has lived a life of solitary for seventeen years. Since her adoption as an infant by the LeBlancs, a family of nobility in Victorian London, Arabella has been kept in her room for most of her life, her stuffed bear as her only companion. She reads of freedom novels, and longs for it dearly. But when it one day appears in her room in the form of the tall-light-and-handsome Nathaniel Harland, Arabella is hesitant—but when she is faced between the choice of going with Nate, or staying with the LeBlancs and marrying Howard Oakley, a powerful noble who happens to be twice her age, Arabella absconds with Nate. What Nate doesn’t tell her is that he’s a part of The Men of Justice, an association of bandits who rebel against the rich and fight for the poor. And when the other members are hesitant on letting in a member of the enemy, the wealthy daughter of a noble, she is allowed to stay, so long as Nate keeps close tabs on her. But with her mother doing all she can to find her again, a secrets and disputes arise between the nobles and the paupers. Arabella had never imagined that freedom could come at such a price.