SHE HAD BEEN WILLING TO DIE FOR HIM...WAS HE WILLING TO LIVE FOR HER?

Brice Warfield, Marquess of Warrington, was the most strikingly handsome man in London, and the most notorious for being haughty, ruthless, and absolutely unfeeling. For the three years since the murders of his parents and brother, he had hidden his bleak inner emptiness behind an icy demeanor and a heart as cold as stone ... until, on a dark night in 1818, the cloaked figure of a woman came out of the mist and threw herself in front of a bullet that could have killed him.

Elora Simmons, innocent and fresh from the country, hair damp with the London fog, was on her way to a new position as a governess. Heedless of her own safety, she had seen the pistol poised to fire and acted. Now, she came back to consciousness naked in the strong arms of a man who was attending her wound, and who stared into her eyes with a riveting Power that dared her to leap the chasm into his dark, tormented soul ... and to become his angel, his savior, or the woman he damned for making him want to live and want to love....