What happens when an artist in search of a muse, picks up a beautiful young Gypsy girl at a Norfolk fair? Intrigued by her potential will he play Pygmalion moulding her into his own thing? No, Fred Sands has bitten off more than he can chew here. The young woman has a mind of her own and Fred is prey, not only to her Romni wiles, but also to the unquiet fantasies that invade his thoughts during the long hours he spends painting her. He shows her in many guises, but the single strand running through his work is his growing obsession with the seductive enchantresses of legend and myth. Kiomi Gray plays the roles he dreams up for her too well, and he becomes hopelessly entangled in the spells she weaves. Fred makes matters worse when he takes up again with the actress who is to remain with him for the rest of his life. Now he has two formidable women on his hands and his life spirals out of control. Has the gypsy model become an avenging angel of his own creation? The Romany curse, that was uttered at that dinner party cannot, after all, be unsaid. The book is faction based on a Gypsy Girl who modelled for the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Like the Hunt for the Hassamboulia, this story unrolls in a kind of parallel universe inhabited by the alter-egos of well-known people (artists painters and poets) of the 19C.