An amorous Russian oligarch, a festive costume ball that promises to be a truly explosive event ... Phoebe knows that her ardent client has more than love on his mind, but she has no idea as to the extent of his ruthlessness. He will stop at nothing to escort Phoebe to Sir Rupert Fox's renown holiday ball, even if it means threatening everything and everyone she loves. But the man who will don the mask of Ivan the Terrible on that fateful night and force Phoebe to play his poor poisoned wife, has no idea of what this queen is capable. Back a woman into a corner at your folly. Beneath the skin of every compliant woman surges the spirit of a warrior queen.