In the shadows of London's civilized world lurks a sphere where life and death battle daily, and murder sets the pace. In this haunting tale of peril and deception, one man discovers this world, as a beautiful woman leads him down a most dangerous garden path... Travel writer Richard Clayburn met her only a few weeks before at a cocktail party, but already the exquisite redheaded Irena has stolen his heart--until the night he wakes to find her naked, rifling through his desk, "I am a thief, " she explains, "I sleep with men and I steal things form them. It's very simple." But to Richard, it isn't simple at all. Determined to find out more about the mysterious Irena, he elicits the help of his friend Diana Mackenzie, and within a few days, they cross an invisible barrier into the unknown.
