What does one do when their entire world is suddenly turned upside down? When a mother dies a few days prior to the day they reach the age of fifteen, it is a tragedy and one grieves her loss. But, when two years later, a father disappears. Abandoning his own blood for voluptuous breasts and gold lined pockets. There is only one thing that can be done. It is time to grow up and do what is needed by any means possible. Find a way to survive Elizabeth needed to live by any means possible. When she finds herself trapped and at the mercy of the most known rake in London Ethan Drake, the Duke of Hartfield, it is more than the dangers of the world that she needs to guard against. She needs to protect her heart as well or find herself reliving the last thing she wishes ... The past.