Set in Hanoverian England, 1745, during the second Jacobite uprising. The novel is an espionage mystery with war, romance and sensual love scenes.
Marquis Blake de Montfort's life is dark and his past violent. He is haunted by a murdered wife and child and obsessed with avenging their deaths. He ceases to care what separates good from evil as he walks his twilight path. Blake is the most powerful man at court, but his power is not vested in parliament, it's more insidious. He's a ruthless spymaster, hated by men, desired by women and feared by all.
Blake is forced to marry Tanisha Ashburn, who unwittingly draws him from his path of destruction, but has no idea she has surrendered her life to intrigue, the lusts of men, and finally, betrayal.
