...One morning, twenty-year-old Bethany leaves the house of her photographer lover, leaving him her only treasure - the diary of a woman who, according to family legends, was her distant ancestor. The disappearance of the girl is inexplicably connected with Lizzie Siddal, who lived in the mid-19th century, a heavenly beautiful model of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, the wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose tragic life was cut short due to an overdose of opium tincture.

Accident or suicide? More than one generation of historians has been struggling with this riddle. Will the novel's heroes be able to uncover the secret of Rossetti's beautiful muse, unravel the tangle of their own conflicting desires, find the disappeared Bethany, lost in a world of loneliness and despair, find hope for happiness and confidence in the future?