Proud and lonely lady Julianna Kingblood, who has decided to remain an old maid until the end of her days, suddenly experiences the shock of her first timid feeling, but the head-turning object of her belated passion - the mercantile Duke Dashmar, who dreams of snatching a rich female on the cynical London bride market, treacherously marries another. With a scandal, challenging the insidious traitor and the entire disgusted secular gathering of snobs and nouveau riche, independent Julianne with a broken heart hides in the family estate, not afraid of evil spirits and creepy ghosts rumored to live in the ancient mansion of her grandfather-marquis. But the mirage of flesh does sometimes appear in the dark, bursting into the bedchamber, tempting with kisses and exciting with gentle touches...