Bath 1852. As a girl Nancy Bloom longed to be part of Bath's Theatre Royal. When a man promised her parents he could find a role for Nancy in the theatre they believed him. His lie and betrayal led to her ruin. Francis Carlyle is a theatre manager an ambitious man always looking for the next big thing to take the country by storm. A self-made man Francis is now rich successful and in need of a new female star. Never in a million years did he think he'd find her standing on a table in one of Bath's bawdiest pubs. Nancy vowed never to trust a man again. But Francis will do anything to make her his star.