Stubbornly principled Lord Ian Blake chose to go to India rather than betray the trust of the family who took him in. But now he’s returned to find the only woman who can redeem him—and the woman who he hurt the most. He knows they have both changed during his time abroad, but he never expected to find beautiful, independent Eva confined in a madhouse.

Eva Carin no longer thinks of herself as a lady. Locked in an asylum with other women society has abandoned, she finds it easier to drift away with laudanum than to face her dark past. When her childhood love, Ian, appears to break her out of her prison, they cross a powerful enemy. Ian expects her to trust in herself—and in him—in order to heal. But the biggest danger of all may be Eva remembering her tragic past.