A wealthy dowager duchess is traveling through Russia in comfort when a Cossack outlaw slips into her camp and claims her.
Dmitri Volkov is younger, dangerous, and unmoved by her rank, her fortune, or the servants who answer to her.
On the open steppe, society’s rules mean nothing, and she is simply his captive.
What unsettles her most is how readily she welcomes that claim.
She thought she had come for a grand adventure, never expecting to belong to an outlaw.
