from back cover:
THE LORD OF SCANDAL
From the moment beautiful Lady Vanessa Ventriss saw Sir Phi Langhorne at a ball, she was entranced this tall, elegant handsome man. Then she began to hear the rumors about him. First she heard that he had been a common physician before chance had given him a title. Then that he had maimed one of her closest friends with his surgeon’s tools. Next that he had taken advantage of a lovely young married woman. And finally – and most disquietingly – that he was master of the satanic skill of mesmerism and could gain control of the very minds of his victims. Vanessa could not be sure any of these rumors were true. But of one thing she was sure: his maddening power to charm her…
