Raised in aristocratic Catholicism, Constance is forced to acknowledge her hypocrisy. While humanity suffers her society indulges. Fire exist at the tip of her tongue as she refuses the tradition of a kept woman. Her family has a devastating enemy that has existed for centuries, she has no idea. While being sent away to Belgian on a secret mission the enemy strikes. Her entire aristocrat structure is devastated upon her return and she has no clues, only enemies throughout Cambridge. Her close friends are silent, her father Alexander has been sent to New Gate, and Lightning, the fastest horse in all of England, has been taken away from her. Now she is engaged in a secret trial pertaining to her beauty at Trinity College by the prominent men who wish to own her. She may even suffer an impossible love, of a man who doesn’t exist as far as the world is concerned.