Cecelia Teague found an escape when a nameless benefactor paid her stay in a prestigious boarding school. The product of a clandestine affair, her Vicar father raised her with cruelty and neglect. She is intent on continuing her education at the University of London, where she can build a life for herself. But when a letter from the Scarlet Lady, Madame of The Masquerade, the most prestigious and infamous brothel in London, informs her that she's left The Masquerade to Cecelia, along with a generous fortune, her life changes. How can a Vicar's daughter run a brothel? But when she realises she has learned how to successfully run a business, why not become a secret Madame as well? Lord Cassius 'Case' Ramsay is a man of unyielding principle. A man with no title, he has made sure to excel at everything in life and lead a life free of scandal. As one of the most powerful, and the wealthiest, Lord Justice of High Court, and a privy councilor, he has one mission to bring his closer to his goal: destroy the Scarlet Lady, who caters to his powerful peers and long-standing lord’s every iniquitous desire. But who he meets when he storms The Masquerade is not an elderly bawd, but a vision that stirs his blood in ways he's never experienced. What begins as a battle of wills ends in passion and Lord Ramsay makes a decision: he must crush the Scarlet Lady, or else he'll be consumed by her...