All his life, Michel Deveraux has been bested by his brother Luc, especially where women are concerned. Suppressed and jealous, he was easy prey for a vengeful ex-girlfriend who married him to punish Luc for jilting her. When Michel finds himself a widower at the age of twenty-eight, the shock of his newfound freedom send him into sexual overdrive and excesses his brother would have envied. The women of Orleans parish may have called Luc a devil and Michel an angel but now the angel is falling fast—and he's enjoying his downward flight to the limit.