In her reckless abandon to be free to live and love, as she chose, young, rebellious Alicia Tierney, surrendered herself to one night of passion with a total stranger.

Years later, heiress to a mysterious fortune, Alicia arrived in London, free and independent at last.

Until the Great Masquerade Ball --- when a masked man, calling himself the Green Domino, Robert St. Clair, the dashing gambler and rake to whom she was strangely attracted, Lord Fane, the romantic adventurer and wealthy dandy whose only interests appeared to be the latest Paris fashions and Alicia Tierney. Or was it someone she did not even know -- but who knew her shameful secret?

That act of youthful rebellion had suddenly become something dark and sinister -- and dangerous.