Madeleine Adams isn't your average aristocrat. Wild, outspoken, and clumsy, she goes through her normal life of horseback riding, dancing, and playing jokes on her brother, Ashton. Her life was perfect until a jealous mistress of her father's poisoned her and her family. As she lay there on her death bed, she used what she thought would be her dying breaths to call for help, and along comes Nathaniel. A mysterious, vague, and an ever so helpful butler comes to her aid, but with a price. Madeleine agrees, with a deadly plan in mind: To avenge her family's murder. As she extracts her revenge, she runs in trouble with law. Can she carry out her revenge, or die trying?