"Victoria, queen of the realm, the mightiest mage in the British Isles, and one of the lustiest women Dr. John H. Weston had ever had the pleasure to companion beneath the covers, was in desperate trouble. And the only one who could help her was the world's most renowned sleuth, Brihtric Donne. For someone had stolen the Rules Brittania, the magic tome that was the secret strength of both Victoria and her kingdom. Now with the Rules gone, Victoria was powerless to halt the unknown foe who was summoning demons of evil to destroy the queen and the Isles. So Donne and Weston began a hunt that would lead from the haunts of Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde to the mound of the Baskervilles to a confrontation with all the darkest magic a would-be monarch's mad ambition could conjure up"--Back cover