In the glittering, high-stakes world of the London Season, Lady Amelia Ashbury is the ton's most exquisite contradiction. To the public, she is the perfect debutante-refined, compliant, and the last hope for her family's dwindling fortune. To herself, she is a woman yearning for a life where her value isn't measured in dowries and alliances.
Sir Henry Sterling is the man every mother warns her daughter about. As the charming second son of a powerful Duke, he navigates the ballrooms with a smirk that suggests he knows everyone's secrets. But Henry hides a double life: by night, he is a radical pamphleteer whose sharp-tongued writings threaten the very aristocracy he belongs to.