Lady Lucinda Malcolm Childe has an uncanny talent for painting pictures that predict future events. When her prize painting of an imaginary romantic hero is displayed in an art gallery, however, it's declared to be the portrait of a murderer at the scene of a crime, and becomes the scandal of the season. Sir Trevelyan Rochester has taken down bloodthirsty pirates, captured French privateers, even gained a commendation from the king. Yet now the whole country is convinced he's a cold-blooded killer-because of a painting. If there's anyone he's ever wanted to murder, it's Lady Lucinda. But somehow the woman bewitches him like no other, and soon he finds he can't bear the thought of letting her go...