Annie, a naive courtesan and devotee of the House of Love, leaves the only life she has known to elope with a mortal she expects to wed.
The afterlife she always longed for is closed to her, and the man she chose is cursed to forget her, so she is left ignored.
Life beyond that cloistered House is harsher than she imagined, until a masked man from the infamous House of Pain hires her to investigate a murder tied to her former lover.
He says the engagement ring she carries once belonged to his wife, a woman who was murdered.
Terrible revelations push the mystery toward an answer and draw their wounded hearts nearer.
