Life in glittering Regency Paris was perilous for beautiful young Michele Martindale. Both her noble English father and lovely French mother were dead, and the inexperienced girl was forced to seek her livelihood on the stage. Two men were vying to influence her life. One was a dashing, impetuous Frenchman, the other a handsome but cold and arrogant English lord. One offered Michele passion without marriage, the other marriage without love, and Michele was dangerously attracted to both. It took a deadly confrontation between these two men to make Michele suddenly grow from a girl into a woman, and to show she was not just a pretty plaything but a vital, vibrant female who could make her own decisions in life and in love.