Sir Lucian Gilbert, master of lies and disguises has retired from Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Service to find the answers to his past.  Left abandoned by his mother with his grandfather as a child, he will go to any lengths to discover the identity of his father and to uncover the circumstances that caused his mother to send him away.

Zeundi, a Nubian assassin raised in Japan is preparing to meet her death; but as fate would have it, the very same Englishman that her assassin ‘sister’ Sauda asks her to protect.  Now she must stay alive to help Lucian on his mission while fighting off those who seek her life for a bounty price.

Lucian and Zeundi, both, pompous, proud and overbearing come to realize their destinies are intertwined and in each other a peace they’ve never found before.   As they search for Lucian’s truths inside the guarded palace of the Ottoman Empire, love is what they discover.

Once Lucian uncovers the truth will the Zeundi still have a place in his life?