The brilliant and handsome Oliver de Lacey had no time for serious feelings. He pursued pleasure, knowing that he was destined to die young. But one day he met a woman who not only saved him from the gallows, but completely changed his entire careless life. Lark looked into his soul and found priceless treasures worthy of salvation. And Oliver felt a pain in her heart that he alone could heal. In the troubled times of the last days of the reign of the Bloody Mary, love became for them the most difficult test and the most precious reward.