A shredded gold lace ballgown. The greatest rake in Regency London. And the modern woman who links them both. When costume curator Emma Stanley meets a frock-coated phantom in an endless museum passage, her body takes fire at his touch. But he melts away, leaving her lost, and clutching the shredded wreck of a Regency ballgown. The magic of the gold lace gown transports Emma across centuries. When is she? Where is she?...