Her marriage offered everything but love...When beautiful Amanda Dounewed the Duc de Gace, the elegant exiled French noble offered her fullenjoyment of his wealth and position in return for her total worship ofhim. But her early adoration could not long blind her to the fact thather husband was capable of loving only himself. Her lover offeredeverything but marriage...Brilliant and gallant Adam Todd, Lord Stanfordoffered Amanda all that she could want as a woman at the cost of allthat she had vowed to be as a wife. Was the loss of her good name andher beloved young children worth the promise of pleasure she tasted inthe arms of her husband's most deadly enemy? Amanda's future and thefate of England itself hung on her moves in a game of romance andintrigue where kisses courted disaster and love rewrote the rules...