Fay Avalon is the queen of London society: adored by all, yet no one truly knows her innermost desires. Her yearning for romance—so conspicuously absent from her glittering life at the side of the celebrated lawyer John Avalon—finds fulfilment in the arms of the Russian Prince Shuvarov. Then, one evening, she is accosted in public by a stranger with a disfigured face. He calls himself the Street Cavalier and demands hush money. Mrs. Avalon complies, but soon realises that there is more to this apparent blackmail than mere greed. Who is the man of honour, and who is the scoundrel?
A story of deceit that mingles love and betrayal—and in which the villain, of all people, emerges as the saviour.