At fourteen, in a Victorian London slum, Jack Rourke brought down his abusive father with a knife. As a man, known to the world as Kit. St. Denys, he ruled the English stage and was adored by both men and women. Friends saw his talent and charm, and never suspected the simmering violence beneath or imagined the devil that haunted his mind.At fourteen, Nick Stuart was a country doctor"s son, imbued with religious fervor and idealism. His only ambitions were to serve God by being a doctor. When he promised his life to God, his body to chastity, and his industry to mankind, he didn"t know that only the last would be easy. He was shaken to his soul when he met Kit St. Denys and fell irresistibly and irrevocably in love.Neither of them could know that a monster from his past stalked Kit, biding his time until he could strike and destroy. He would succeed all too well.