Inès believes she can do any deed to free her brother from prison. What she cannot predict is how one man’s love can destroy her illusion.
Inès Bechard has performed a miraculous feat in France of deluding the French—and escaping their vengeance. Fleeing to England, she has the help of her friends to create a new life for herself.
She desperately needs their gaiety, their security, and their promised exposure to the British social whirl. But she can never tell them why.
What she does not need is a charming man who lures her with promises of kisses, affection, and wedded bliss.
Evan, Lord Halsey, sees in this lovely French émigré a woman he wants to treasure as his own. Resist him she can, and does.
But the man is damnably persistent and convinces her that all she has lost, including family, friends, and love, she can regain in his fond embrace as his wife.
