Lord Geoffrey Thraxton is notorious in Victorian societya Byronesque rake with a reputation as the
wickedest man in London. But on a fog-shrouded morning in Highgate Cemetery, Thraxton encounters a
spectral wraith that stirs his morbid fascination with death and the supernatural.
After surviving a pistol duel, Thraxton boasts his contempt for death and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will regret, for Silas Garrette is a deranged sociopath and chloroform-addict whose mind was
broken on the battlefields of Crimea.
When Thraxton falls in love with a mysterious woman who haunts Highgate Cemetery by night, he unwittingly provides the murderous doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death.
