AN EXPERT IN ANTIQUITIES LADY ALLESANDRA DELLA GIAMATI ARRIVES IN BATH IN BATH TO EXCAVATE NEWLY DISCOVERED ROMAN RUINS -- ONLY TO FIND HERSELF CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF A BLACK MAILER THREATENING TO EXPOSED HER SCANDALOUS PAST. THE ONE MAN WHO CAN HELP HER IS LORD JAMES BLACK JACK PIERSON A FELLOW MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION AND A SINFULLY HANDSOME ROUGE WHOS TEMPTING PRESENCE IGNITES A DIFFERENCE SOURCE OF DNAGER