IN A COURT OF DEADLY INTRIGUE SHE WAS ICE. HE WAS FLAMEThey called Cassia Montefort "Lady Winter" because amid the mad flirtationsof the Restoration court, she was the unsullied ice princess who had becomea favorite of his majesty, Charles II. No one knew how she suffered at herown father's hand, or of her real reason for meeting with the King. Now LordMontefort had been murdered, and the jewelled lords and ladies whisperedthat Cassia, sole heir to his fortune, should hang. Rolfe Brodrigan, LordRavenscroft, was sent by royal decree to help clear her name. Brodriganbecame a summer wildfire for Lady Winter--maybe a little dangerous, but arelief from royal schemes and deadly secrets. Now beautiful Cassia, cold forso long, began to feel a passion that was warm and healing, a love to saveher life....