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Johanna Lindsey has many gifts: the extraordinary ability to bring a woman's most cherished dreams of romance to glorious life on the page; the talent to create characters with such flair and fire that they remain forever in memory and close to the heart; and the genius to seamlessly blend passion, wit, and emotion in uniquely rich and original stories. Her gifts have made Johanna one of the most beloved writers of romantic fiction in the world--and have made every one of her more than thirty novels a bestseller.

Has anyone in London ever taken part in the coming-out season with less enthusiasm than Sabrina? She is young, lovely, and possesses a sparkling wit, yet she knows she is but a simple orphaned country girl--whose grandfather just happened to have been a nobleman--and therefore feels dreadfully out of place. Luckily Ophelia, the daughter of a family friend, has been chosen to usher Sabrina through the perils and pitfalls of this all-important first season. What better guide than this terribly sophisticated blond beauty who is the most sought-after lady in the city?

Even less keen to be in London is Duncan MacTavish. Having lived twenty-one deliriously contented years in the Scottish Highlands, he has recently learned he is the sole heir of an English Marquis and is now required to assume his grandfather's title and estates. Worse still, a betrothal has already been arranged without his consent to the ravishing, viper-tongued Ophelia who has been heard to make scathing statements in public about her Scottish barbarian groom-to-be.

Bad circumstance, however, can sometimes have distinctly pleasurable advantages especially when his unwanted intended's sudden desire to repent brings the dashing highlander into close proximity with the enchanting Sabrina. Now this is a woman for whom Duncan would willingly abandon his beloved Scotland: a kindred spirit whose wit delights him... and whose essence is the exquisite stuff of dreams. But duty and station forbid Sabrina's and Duncan's desired union. And a secret dwells in the lady's past, and it threatens their romance. Under such adverse conditions a match that should be, a passion that must be, cannot possibly be--unless true love can somehow, miraculously find a way.