Alizah Brannigan was born in the poorest backstreets of London. She was enchanting in her beauty and sweetness, but filthy, undernourished and starved of love. Her mother had died at her birth and her father drowned his sorrows in drink. Life in the slum meant brutality, degradation and crushing poverty. Alizah was determined to escape her miserable existence. Escape would bring her wealth, luxury and love as she mingles with the high society of London and the elite of Paris, France in the glamorous world of fashion - revealing a glittering age in all its splendid and scandalous variety ...and heartache she could never have imagined...