A house of passion and lust. A house of lies and deceit. A house to die for... Handsome and embittered, Charles Levy will do anything to keep what is rightfully his. Torn between his love and loyalty toward his second cousins, Anne de Rochefleur and Amelia von Guttman, Charles finds himself embroiled in a web of deception, passion, and lust that spans the early decades of the Twentieth century, destroying the lives of those around him. But harboring his own resentment and bitterness , Charles' past crushes all that he's ever desired—the house that Napolean built.