Bride to a Stranger... When Chris Tarleton awoke in the bed of Marcus di Medici, she knew she was lost. Despite her claim that she wanted nothing more than to wed a di Medici man, she hadn't intended to marry Marcus - even though she loved him. The past was too clouded. Years ago his father had died at the hands of an unknown assailant, and now Chris's own life was threatened by a shadowed figure who used the canals and passages of Venice as weapons. Marcus said he intended only to protect her, but that didn't change the fact that her husband was a stranger, one she might not live long enough to know.