A respectable viscount. A virtuous lady. A foray into London's seedy underworld will unmask their secret desires. After years of holding his crumbling family together, Edward, the upstanding Viscount Meriden, embarks on one night of reckless abandon at a notorious house of sin. There he meets a masked mystery woman and longs to uncover all her secrets. But when he realizes she’s an old friend on a dangerous mission, he insists on becoming her protector.