London, 1813. Miss Cassandra Thorne has one Season to marry well and save her family's mortgaged house. On the night of the Duchess of Ravensmoor's ball she wins a coveted voucher to Almack's, and loses her borrowed pearls in a moonlit conservatory. By Saturday, the scandal sheets will have the story. A Regency romance of manners, where scandal is the deadliest fate.