Voss, also known as Viscount Dewhurst, relishes the sensual pleasures immortality affords. A member of the Dracule?a cabal of powerful, secretive noblemen marked with a talisman that reveals their bartered souls?the mercenary Voss has remained carefully neutral?until Angelica.<P>Angelica Woodmore possesses the Sight, an ability invaluable to both sides of a looming war among the Dracule. Her very scent envelops Voss in a scarlet fog of hunger?for her body and her blood. But he is utterly unprepared for the new desire that overcomes him?to protect her.<P>Now Voss must battle his very nature to be with Angelica?but this vampire never backs down from a fight.