The shocking murder of Flora's father, landlord of the Tucker's Grave Inn, leaves the 23-year-old orphan, bereft but for her distant cousins, Louis and Gavin Fletcher. Taken into their grand home, Belvedere House, against her better judgement, Flora is puzzled by the brothers' motives and senses that they understand more than she does about her father's death. Soon she is caught up in a web of intrigue and duplicity more complex and frightening than she could ever have guessed at, which links Flora and her handsome cousins to the terrifying events taking place across the Channel, in Revolutionary France...