Fabulously wealthy, daring Nicholas Minnett had known many beautiful women - but never one to match Lorna Fitzgerald.

The moment he met her, he knew that to trust her was folly. But from the first taste of her flesh, there was no turning back. And on a trail of lust, violence, treachery and terror that led from a great English estate to the corruption of the most depraved city on the Continent, from a bloody battle of the burning sands of Egypt to a night mare ship's cabin where passionate pleasuring and hideous torture were part of the same deadly game - Europe's fate hung on a woman's silk-smooth lips and a man's steely strength....