New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins...

Aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr must find the true culprit and defend his former lover, Kat Boleyn, when she is accused of the murder of a notorious diamond merchant.