He rode out of the Yorkshire mist, a dark figure on a dark horse. Was he a living man or a nightmare vision, conjured up by her fearful imagination and her uncertain future?

Voices swirled in her head:
They say he's more than human.
A man's life is in danger when he's around .. .
And a woman's virtue.

Repelled yet fascinated, Lucinda found herself swept into a whirlwind courtship. Yet even as his lips set fire to her heart, she could not forget his words of warning on the night they met:

Tread softly, Heed little that you see and hear. Then leave. For God's sake, leave.

Whether he was the lover of her dreams or the embodiment of all she feared, she sensed he would always be her…Devil in the Dark.