Emmeline Nevada Holtz was the richest - and the most sheltered - girl in America. Temporarily stranded in Paris without a chaperone, Emmeline realized that this was her one chance to experience life in a way she has never known before. Her determination to enjoy her newfound freedom would lead Emmeline to some of the most dissolute pleasure palaces in Paris and to social acquaintances whose respectability was just a front for a most horrifying evil. But it would also lead her straight into the arms of the only man she would ever love.