Has the “Shakespeare Curse†struck again? When Liliana Spencer's father, an Oxford don and Shakespeare scholar, dies rumors of the curse circulate through the university town. Practical Lily scoffs at the idea of a curse, but once she discovers the journal of a young woman who may have been Shakespeare’s lover, Lily is entangled in a web of deceit and danger. The darkly handsome Jared Lassiter may be the curse’s next victim. Or he may be the one pulling Lily into a world of passion and intrigue—a world she may never want to escape.