Helen the Countess Godwin knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets & causes scandal after scandal. So she decides it's time for a change: she styles her hair in the newest most daring mode puts on a shockingly transparent gown & goes to a ball like Cinderella hoping to find a Prince Charming to sweep her off her feet.. .and into his bed. But instead of a prince she finds only her own volatile infuriatingly handsome husband Rees the Earl Godwin. They'd eloped to Gretna Green in a fiery passion but passions can sometimes burn too hot to last. However Rees now makes her a brazen offer & Helene decides to become his wife again.. .but not in name only. No this time she decides to be very very wicked indeed.