When Karen Heywood is offered a new job as assistant archivist, she hopes that the mysterious halls and old libraries of Blackwood Towers will finally reveal to her the inner strength and purpose she's spent her life searching for. But Karen realizes there's more to the job than she bargained for as dark secrets and desires begin to rise to the surface. Soon one man consumes her every waking thought, a man whose secrets she is dying to unravel—Blackwood's mysterious owner, Lord Mallory Burnet.