The shocking secret of her ancestry thrust her into a vortex of danger and desire...
Beautiful Nicole Duchard was stunned when imperial envoy Dimitri Denisov whisked her from her humble Boston home to establish her as Princess Natasha Steanova. It didn't take long for Dimitri to discover in the eyes of this Yankee Princess a wild spirit to match his own, and in the loveliness of her body a fire that betrayed her passion. But as a long-lost, secret royal love child, Nicole's lineage threatened the throne of Catherine the Great and she became victim to rapacious palace intrigues.
Forced to suffer the degradations and ravages of an auction-block marriage... a bloody serf uprising... a cruel Siberian exile, she followed her still tender heart along a treacherous path to freedom and fulfillment—and into the arms of the one audacious gentleman who intoxicated her with love's irresistible promise...
