Olivia Thorne was pretty, penniless and unmarried - and likely to stay that way. Because the only man who had ever made her heart beat faster was also penniless; a charming rogue of an Englishman named Lucian who played the piano and acted the gentleman in public, but was a rebel at heart. Against the colourful backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy, honeycombed with revolutionaries and patriots, this spellbinding novel unfolds the tale of lovers and villains - and of a woman who knew what she wanted and would stop at nothing to achieve it.