Power and privilege, duty and honor, Noella de Bartez was born to it all.

Her mother was a legendary actress who gave up her career to follow the man she loved. Her father is president of a country where powerful forces are determined to overthrow him. But, still guilty from a long-ago sin, Noella no longer feels she has a rightful place in the family.

Wild and wilful, she rejects the land of her birth for the temptations of Paris and London. There, her uncanny likeness to her late mother opens door to high society but also entraps her in a decadence capable of destroying all her father has worked for.

Then a single, shattering event changes her life forever and Noella must find the courage to honor her family name and do her duty in her country's darkest hours.