Handsome as the devil and just as dangerous, he moves like a shadow through the back streets of Georgian London. Yet Robert Sinclair Dovenby, commonly know as the Dove, is also a star in the drawing rooms of high society.

Yet his carefully balanced world falls apart when Dove returns home to find a bonfire in the street in front of his townhouse, and a stranger tied up in his bedroom.

The bonfire has devastating enough emotional consequences for Dove, but the stranger threatens to challenge his entire existence.

A Dangerous Lady . . .

Lovely, ruthless by necessity, Sylvie Georgiana, Countess of Montevrain, has survived only by learning men's secrets and breaking their hearts. This time she breaks into her quarry's life disguised as a stripling named George White, determined to trick Dove into hiring her as his secretary.

What Dove doesn't know is that Sylvie has already been hired by his enemies to uncover his mysteries, so that she may send him to the scaffold.

The Maze . . .

Sylvie soon finds herself in a man's world: sleigh races under a winter moon; the raucous warmth of coffeehouses. Yet her true task awaits: to entice Dove into her woman's world of sensuality and eroticism, then deliver him into the hands of his enemies.

She will go to any lengths, risking mind, soul—and every practiced asset of her limber body—to destroy him.  How can she know that Dove is playing a cat-and-mouse game of his own? How can either of them know that when the masks are stripped away, their encounter is destined to shatter their souls?