When the deposed, and true King of Celtica returns from the dead, the life of actress Jessamy Powers will change forever. Little does she know when an old and hated lover shows up in her dressing room, that he has become an assassin and agent for England, intent on wresting the throne of Celtica from the bloody fanatics who stole it twenty years earlier. Known by the code name Rook, Sebastian St. Just Earl of Redsayle, has made it his life's work to restore the true King of Celtica. Jessamy should have been a small fly in the ointment in his return to England, but instead turns out to be the key to an ancient prophecy that will see the magical kingdom he loves restored or destroyed forever. What should be the beginning of a typical London season in 1822 sees London become a place of violence, passion and the hunting ground of a fanatic and magical priesthood intent on killing anyone who gets in their way. The battle for the ancient throne of Celtica begins in earnest with one unsuspecting young actress finding that her life has been a web of lies and on her shoulders may rest the fate of an entire kingdom.