The Dangerous Dr. Langhorne

THE LORD OF SCANDAL
From the moment beautiful Lady Vanessa Ventriss saw Sir Philip Langhorne at a ball, she was entranced by this tall, elegant, handsome man. Then she began to hear the rumors about him.

First she heard that he had been a common physician before chance had given him a title. Then that he maimed one of her closest friends with his surgeon's tools. Next that he had taken advantage of a lovely young married woman. And finally--and most disqutetingly--that he was master of the satanic skill of mesmerism and could gain control of the very minds of his victims.

Vanessa could not be sure any of these rumors were true. But of one thing she was sure: his maddening power to charm her....