Lord Deverill Buchanan, aka Devil/The Pirate, rues the day he committed a dishonorable act with one sister in the youthfully mistaken belief he was behaving honorably towards the younger. Maturity, the hungering of his heart, and her brother’s fear for Lady Gypsophila’s safety causes him to concoct an elaborate tissue of lies, the only way either of them can think to prevail upon Gypsy to even speak to the man who devastated her 16 year old heart.

After that, it’s down to the fall of the cards—or is it?