From the sheltered walls of Evington Hall to living under the tyrannical rule of her father on the Park Estate, Jude Park yearns for freedom. She begins a secret affair with the exciting and dangerous Leo Abramov. He sweeps her away to Paris where she can achieve her dreams of becoming an opera singer and can finally find independence from her family. In Paris Jude and Leo are thrown into the path of an elite secret society who guard their list of wealthy members as jealously as the insidious acts that occur within their walls. Peter Seymour has returned, uninspired and disillusioned, from years of living in Florence to find that the child of his closest friends has grown into a fascinating and passionate woman. Instantly intrigued by her, he is sent by Jude's parents to bring her home. Now Peter must risk everything to rescue her from an underworld of murder, secrets and dark deeds.

The story is set in England after Queen Victoria has passed the throne to her son, Edward VII. Edmund Park has inherited his own throne of sorts (a glass factory) after his father's death. After a series of mishaps and disruptions from labor unions, the business that Edmund's father built is about to come crashing down around him. Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman named Audrey stumbles onto the Park Estate one night. It is learned that she has run away from a school for orphaned girls called Evington Hall and its violent headmistress. As Audrey discovers the truth about her family and her fortunes start to rise, Edmund's continue to fall. It is a story that puts a new twist on the roles of women and men in Victorian society as well as a celebration of the possibilities that came to be in that time in England. But above all, it is the story of the uncontainable power of true love between a man and a woman who are each other's perfect match in every way.