After one-hundred and fifteen years of regret for having lost Ella to Frederick Abberline's arms, Rochester is back to his wretched ways of old. That is, until he stumbles upon the one thing he never expected to find: a girl who saves him from himself.

When murder and tragedy strike those closest to Eloise, and when her heart is torn between the kind Inspector Abberline and the subject of her innermost desires, a man known simply as John - who will she choose to save her from death's biting doorstep?