When Geneva Langley's latest scandal finds her banished from Chicago to the muddy, backwards streets of Seattle, along with her ambitious husband, Nathan, she feels truly isolated and friendless. Her life there is a far cry from the art-filled society she left behind. Beatrice Wilkes is an actress whose dream of becoming leading lady is going nowhere fast. But a new production-and a new patron-looks to change her luck ¿ until Geneva Langley seizes the chance for herself and unknowingly crushes Bea's dream. But the great Seattle fire ravages the city and changes everything. Beatrice and Geneva must forge the most unlikely of alliances, one that leads them to a dark and perilous plan to change their lives and their fortunes in a dangerous game that will end in either redemption or damnation.