To sing for her supper, or dance with danger? Italian opera singer, Carmalina Belluccini has been alone with her bad luck and morbid thoughts for too long. Making a public living leaves her a target for London's rich and entitled to treat her as a plaything and she hates it. When a man who is no angel offers her an affare, dignity and desire start to battle within her. She is no courtesan and certainly not mistress material, only, when her beautiful voice fails she finds herself in a position too difficult to refuse Justin Trentham's protection. But what is he hiding and why is he so desperate to create the scandal of the season?