At sixteen, high-born Lady Emily Brockton had been forced by circumstance to wed the notorious, devastatingly seductive Leon Devereux. But theirs had been a marriage in name only, and the handsome rakehell had soon set sail for America, leaving his chaste young bride alone and at the mercy of every fortune-hunting scoundrel in the ton. Five years later, they would meet again at a society ball…when a masked stranger swept Emily into his virile embrace. But it was a dangerous destiny that had brought Devereux back to England and to the woman he’d sworn to possess at all costs. And even as Emily found herself surrendering to his searing caresses, a treacherous enemy threatened to tear her forever from the arms of the man she’d vowed never to love...but now could not longer live without!
