Victim of an abusive marriage, Iana vowed in her widowhood never again to put her fate in masculine hands. But one man, Henri Gillet, heir to the Trouville dynasty, had aroused her slumbering desires—and endangered her deepest resolve.

Love, Henri Gillet pondered, was simple. Noble obligations were not. And now he faced a royal-size dilemma—for though the Lady Iana had saved him from certain death, her shadowed past, so full of the darkest secrets, stood between them and threatened a future together…!