They are the envy of all London, the talk of the ton! As the lovely young widow Amelia Carrington and her escort Justin Farnham, Earl of Croyden, dine and dance through glittering Regency London, almost consumed by their desire for each other, Justin cannot understand why she holds him off. How can Amelia tell him that they have already been lovers! That she is the ravishing, mysterious beauty he knew only as Mystere for one ecstatic week of love after a masked ball? That she is the woman who taught him passion, then betrayed and embittered him...?