Hayden Lane, a best-selling romance writer, is a happy young woman -- or so she believes. Certainly her pals might chide her for not getting out more, but writing her novels is time-consuming. Besides, the tales she weaves of dark intrigues and timeless love are more thrilling than any blind date could possibly be. For her next book, about lovers whose present lives are complicated by their past lives, she decides to consult a psychic. When the psychic tells her that in a past life in Edwardian England, Hayden was a woman named Lady de Grey, she is intrigued. And when she learns that Lady de Grey was a promiscuous woman who mysteriously disappeared one night, that she was rumored to have poisoned her husband, and that her ghost is said to haunt this home, Hayden is spellbound.

Although the psychic warns her not to investigate further, Hayden must know more. When she meets a hypnotist at a dinner party -- and he promises he won't make her cluck like a chicken -- she can't resist volunteering. But his trick goes wrong, and instead of merely remembering her lifetime as Lady de Grey, Hayden is whisked back to Edwardian times. The moment she awakens, she faints, due to the unfamiliar sensation of Lady de Grey's extremely tight corset. But soon Hayden will awaken again, to discover quite a different story about a woman history considered a trollop, a spectacular brooding man... and the rapturous love that would be hers if she dared open her heart to the most mysterious adventure of all....