The author of Temptation's Kiss takes readers to the English seacoast, where a young woman has jumped overboard and swum to shore . . . only to find herself in the arms of a mysterious stranger whose face is as angry as it is handsome. . . . Aloise Crawford's father had imprisoned her for years in a French academy before he ordered her back to George III's England for a scandalous reason: to auction her to any suitor who would bid highest for her and her dowry fof the fabulous Bengal Rubies