Sure she is worthless to all but her cat, Eva falls into the hands of a man defined by his terrible scars. Now that her powerful family is destroyed, this pock-marked Moor's choices - once the subject of a childish fairy-tale - become personal: can the curse of rejection be broken, or will ambition win his soul? The response of ordinary people to the cruelties of a harsh time and the moral challenges of slavery and the Spanish Inquisition drive this heart-warming tale of beautiful, strife-torn sixteenth-century Granada.