Rhys Davies, bastard son of a lord, is one of the best attorneys in London but needs a wife to enhance his professional reputation. Annalies of Saxe-Weiden is a landless princess with a strange family life and many secrets. She is the last person Rhys would marry, but their physical attraction entangles them in a dangerous scandal.

If she reveals herself, she will lose him. If she doesn’t, he will be hanged. Bian has been ordered to become intimate with Stuart Sutherland-Bruce in order to find the proof that he is the spy everyone is convinced he is. Falling in love with him isn't part of her orders.