"As a boy he had been known as El Rubio, a ragamuffin pimp who made his few pesos leading sailors to his home, a waterfront bordello...as a young man he was called Mario-handsome and experienced beyond his years in the debauchery and treachery of slave trading Havana....and then suddenly he was the Count of San Mateo-heir to a Spanish fortune-and bound for Spain to play the role of a human stallion to a desperate, degenerate queen..."