Pierce Langdon, Viscount Westfall, is mad. So they say. But he actually has a psychic gift. He hears people's thoughts, and uses his ability in service to the Order of the M.U.S.E. Now he's investigating a plot against the Crown, and the Lady Nora Claremont, a sultry courtesan, seems to be at the center of it. If he wasn’t mad before, Nora may drive him to it. Pierce knows just what she wants and what she's thinking. What Nora wants is Pierce...and what she's thinking could expose her as a traitor to the crown.