Our protagonist is offered a chance to escape her past by assuming another person's identity and entering the glittering world of New York's Gilded Age elite. However, beneath the city's lavish balls and ruthless social rituals lies a hidden society where ambition, wealth, and marriage are bound by ancient demonic bargains. 

As the season unfolds, she must navigate deadly trials, impossible expectations, and supernatural forces that hunger for far more than status. To secure the future she's been promised, she'll have to outwit monsters in human form—and discover whether the greatest danger comes from the bargains people make or the desires they cannot resist.