Can a hero ever live up to his reputation? For seven years, Ceressa Quarles has secretly admired Latimer Kirkleigh. Latimer has spent those same seven years disappointing everyone he loves. When they reunite, she finds him jaded, arrogant...and still irresistible. He finds her disconcerting, headstrong...and beautiful. As responsibility and tragedy intertwine, Ceressa and Latimer are set upon a course that neither is prepared to travel. Forced to flee her English home, Ceressa accepts a marriage proposal from Latimer and finds herself living in a savage, colonial wilderness embroiled in...

Charice Marin has lived her entire life with a father who is nothing more than a shadowy figure who dances on the fringes of her consciousness. While in Paris, the American prima ballerina finds herself partnered with Domitri Auberchon, a danseur noble with his own share of shadows and secrets, and from their first meeting, her life is never the same. When an unscrupulous man from her mother's past reappears, dangerous complications arise, and Charice is forced to find her father if she is to save her mother and herself. But Charice's discoveries only serve to throw suspicion on her mother...