Everything comes with a price... For Carmella Woods, daughter of the prestigious and highly favored Lord Woods, feeling caged is no novelty. Her entire life has been designed in the hopes to make her fit, to adapt to what her parents perceive as respectable, honorable. Not doing so has high, unthinkable consequences. Consequences she has faced in the past, and has lost the fight against in the present. Doing her best to be an obedient daughter and keep her essence-her spark-has proven quite difficult, especially since the favored her father praises are nothing more than a group of superficial bigots. Until Derek Warren reenters her life. Gorgeous, egocentric Derek Warren. Womanizing, dangerous Derek Warren. After being fiercely rejected by Prince Derek, Carmella can hardly glance at him without feeling enraged. Though that quickly changes as her life is swooped into a whirlwind, with the prince at the center of the chaos-of the blaze. A link to who she truly is. In a battle between past and present, truth and lies, Carmella must decide whether to fight the licks of flame that threaten to consume her, or embrace them.