Saphira is cursed with exceptional beauty. To her parents, she's a goldmine. They want to find her a rich husband to save their own failing business. Enter the Marquis, a wealthy assassin with a secret grudge against Saphira's parents and the rest of the town's elite. Forced into an arrangement she can't escape, Saphira is pulled down a dark path of revenge. Certain she won't survive the Marquis' plot, she tries to keep her sanity by doing the one thing she knows how—she paints him. What she doesn't expect is that her nemesis has another face only she can see. And that she has hidden powers of her own, powers that can either redeem or doom his soul.