Luciana Pietro d'Angelo, one of the daughters of a Florentine silk merchant, did not love, but revered her old husband, a successful bookseller, and when her husband died, leaving her a substantial inheritance, she did not feel the slightest desire to enter into a new marriage. But one day Robert Minton, Earl of Lisle, friend and confidant of King Henry VII, arrived in Florence, and he and Luciana fell in love at first sight, passionately and recklessly. The feelings of the beautiful Florentine turned out to be so strong that she did not hesitate to follow her lover to London, not even suspecting how many dangers and intrigues awaited her at the royal court...