‘Trembling, are you?’ he sneered. ‘Take heart, my dear Madalena — console yourself that in losing your virtue to me, you will at least be the envy of all your young friends, for do they not lie in their chaste little beds each night, dreaming of just such a fate!’
Madalena had been intrigued by the handsome and mysterious Devereux, Duke of Lytten, but now her frankness and her talent for scandal seemed likely to bring her to grief.
A timely faint saves her; but Madalena is soon to learn that nothing can save her from love — even though Devereux’s secret life draws her into a tangled web of deceit and deadly peril...