After a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful
Miranda finds herself faced with an impossible dilemma: enter a life of petty
crime or watch her family succumb to poverty. But once her fiancee learns of
her descent into danger and of the strange, new powers she has discovered,
saving her family may come at the high price of her heart.
When Lord Benjamin Archer's one chance for redemption is destroyed by
corrupt London antiquarian Hector Ellis, he vows to take what Ellis values most
- his daughter Miranda. Forced to hide his face behind masks, Archer travels
the world hoping to escape the curse that plagues him so that he can finally
claim his prize.
But once Archer returns home to London, will it be revenge he seeks or will the
flame-haired beauty ignite new, undeniable desires?