Sibyl Smiles possesses a most unfashionable leaning toward independence. But now is not the time to be distracted by the woman he secretly adores. He has just successfully defended a friend of the king in a sensational trial and has been warned that his life and Sibyl's are in jeopardy. A professor with time on his hands, and seduction on his mind, sits at a caf table with his Violetta, his bewitching mixture of nubile innocent and coquette. Music and laughter are a background to persuasion, and to a dream girl's dangerous games.
Wine warms the veins, and sun heats the skin while passion destroys caution.
A recipe for Lust. He believed that he had mad the right decision, and that his son would find contentment in the arms of another couple. After all, he knew his wife would have wanted it that way. Thirteen years later, he finds out that the boy's adoptive parents have died and that he has been sent to Cornwall, England to live with relatives. Impulsively, Byron decides to go and see his son, Ian, to make certain all is well.