Isabella Ashwood, the blessed holy maiden, is brutally betrayed by her husband Edmond Temple. He frames her family as heretics, burns 27 of her kin alive, and sells her to a brothel. Dying in despair, she is reborn three days before the fateful straw-drawing that decides her marriage. Rejecting Edmond, she chooses to marry the cursed, feared Black Duke Sebastian Black. Using her blessing to break his curse, Isabella teams up with him to exact ruthless revenge on Edmond and her scheming adopted sister, while finding unexpected, eternal true love.
