In Britain’s Regency era, manners and elegance reign in public areas life—but nowadays treason and deception thrive. Nicholas Langdon is no stranger to reserved civility or bloody barbarity. After suffering a battlefield injury, the rich, well-connected British official returns home to heal—and to fulfill a dying soldier’s last wish by providing his coded journal.

At the house from the Wilherns, one of England’s most powerful families, Langdon attends a lavish ball where he matches their beautiful and intelligent ward, Julia Grey. Determined to maintain propriety, he keeps his range—before diary is stolen and all hints result in Julia’s guardian. As Langdon traces an wicked plot that could be the nation’s undoing, he increases ever more intrigued from the wonderful young woman. So when Julia realizes that England—and the person she is falling in love with—need her help, she finds herself caught in the fray. Will the two succumb to their attraction while fighting to save lots of their country?