Theodora Sinclair, a fallen heiress scrubbing floors in a gilded hotel, was saved by Cyril Lynn—the sickly "shame" of the Lynns once. When the world mocks him as "unfit for even a beggar's bride," she married him. Armed with an unerring eye for relics and a mind sharp as dragon-glass, Theodora discovered the Lynns' viper's nest of greed, and helped Cyril Lynn rise from puppet to patriarch, while their bond is tempered in betrayal's fire.
