New York Times bestselling author ROSEMARY ROGERS returns with a breathtaking new novel of consuming passion and daring adventure…

After Talia Dobson is jilted at the altar, she endures another humiliation: a substitute groom! The elder brother of her runaway betrothed has taken matters into his own hands. Shy Talia has long held a secret attraction for Andrew Richardson, the handsome Earl of Ashcombe. But when she’s wedded, bedded and dispatched alone to his country estate, the timid beauty discovers one night of passion has ignited a bold inner fire.

While his lovely green-eyed bride is out of sight, she is not far from Andrew’s mind—and when Talia is abducted by French spies, the earl fears he may lose what he’s only just found. Yet the wife he races to rescue is a far cry from the gentle bride he abandoned. She’s a woman who dares to demand forever after from her husband…

About the author:

No one understands better than ROSEMARY ROGERS the power of sweet, savage passion...and the sensuous secrets of those who are ruled by it. Her fi rst novel, Sweet Savage Love, became an instant nationwide bestseller and was translated worldwide into twelve languages. By the time her third novel, Dark Fires, was
published, she was dubbed “the bestselling novelist in America” by The Washington Post. Now, with over 60 million copies of her novels in print worldwide, the woman the New York Times Book Review called the Queen of Historical Romance continues to thrill readers with novels fi lled with adventure, excitement and, as always,
wildly tempestuous romance.