They become lovers from the very first meeting. And although Mimosina, an actress on stage and in life, has been seducing politicians across Europe and finding out their secrets for the past sixteen years, Valentin, the king of London smugglers and charlatans, understands that they have much in common. But little does he know that the Venetian spy set out on this path... straight from a quiet monastery, where the nuns sold the young aristocrat to an Englishman who was well known to Valentin...