Captives of the Night

Leila Beaumont is a gorgeous and talented portrait painter trapped in a loveless marriage with her profligate husband, Francis. Though long ago, Francis very much played the hero, rescuing and wedding the orphaned 17-year-old Leila - Francis'' more recent hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, drugging and womanizing has not only earned him quite a few enemies in London, but lost him the love of his wife.When Francis turns up dead in the Beaumont townhouse, right after a loud and vitriolic argument with his wife, Leila is seen as the primary suspect, innocent though she is. Because of Francis'' many enemies and victims, government officials instigate a quiet investigation, many of whom fear fallout from Francis'' numerous blackmail and extortion schemes.The man they call on - the sexy blue-eyed Comte d''Esmond - is a man of many talents who has spent the past ten years as one of the government''s most trusted covert operatives; a man who also has a dark and treacherous past.Neither Leila,