Jonet Rowland, the Marchioness of Mercer is lovely, rich,
and—it is rumored—an unrepentant adulteress. And when her
philandering husband is murdered in his own bed, it's
whispered that Jonet is a femme fatale in more ways than
one. It will take a dashing and honorable soldier to get
Jonet out of this one.
When his scheming uncle begs Captain Cole Amherst to
investigate the death of his brother, Lord Mercer, Cole
flatly refuses. But it is soon apparent that treachery
stalks Lady Mercer’s two innocent children. A man of God
and a scholar, Cole reluctantly plunges into the viper’s
pit that is Jonet Rowland’s life, and finds that nothing
could have prepared him for the lust she inspires...or the
danger which surrounds them.