The Lady

Lady Delilah Darling has always been adored, cherished and pampered. Then cruel hands force her out of her home and onto the dangerous streets of London, where she has no money, no protector and no idea how to survive.

Her search for safety ends in the arms of Henry Gaunt, who runs the London Underground. His contemporaries call him The Tramp. He rules his dark world with charm and with violence, rewarding those who submit and breaking those who do not.

Henry means to keep the newly fallen lady for himself. He offers her protection, and the price is her submission. Delilah accepts, and becomes his pet, kept on a leash and owned by him.

The story follows a sheltered woman in a world she has never known, bound to a powerful and dangerous man. The dark romance turns on whether a woman claimed as property can also be loved.