Time is running out for Jasper Townley, Earl of Pembrook Injured, now drug addicted, the Crown enlists him for his special talents to find a killer that has stolen the research of an unfathomable weapon of earth shattering proportions. Then he met Elizabeth, a young scientist, who has the keen ability to see right through him to uncover his most closely guarded secret. The pull toward her is irresistible, yet he must be rid of her if he would protect her from the demons that plague him. Impossible, since she holds the key to uncovering the identity of the killer.