When Mandrake Blackstone, the Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner, begins to suspect that his older brother, Viscount Danbury, is the notorious killer The Viper, he is determined to bring him to justice. But Drake has no proof, and one can't just arrest a member of the ton without being certain. But when he is kidnapped and trapped with lovely Heather Fields, a lovely lady's maid, Drake begins to question everything, including the code of ethics that was once so clear to him. But when he must choose between love and duty, what will he decide?