Playing royal bodyguard to Mathiaz de Marigny, the seductive Baron Montravel, was a temptation few women could resist. But the moment he was out of harm's way, Jacinta Newnham had fled his chateau—and abandoned memories of moonlit nights that left them both weak with unfulfilled passion.

Now stricken with amnesia and in danger once again, Mathiaz summoned Jacinta back to his side. Jacinta vowed to protect his life, but the greater peril was to her heart—and the haunting secret she could never reveal. When the truth surrounding Mathiaz's accident—and Jacinta's connection to it—surfaced, would he force her to leave, or refuse to let her go again…?