prologue

"Her lips were slightly apart, something both innocent and erotic ... Her face- it held joy with fear, expressed longing and yet was filled with loss. She was such and alluring, delicate character ... What could have compelled the artist to draw somebody as her?"

The hidden, craved relationship between the mysterious and bewitching artist Ashton Irwin and the young, beautiful and captivating maid at his home with an aesthetically fascinated mind. And the story of his already married wife, pregnant with their child along with the intensely attractive butcher's son with the name of Luke Hemmings, set in the late 1600s.