From the moment Nicholas Bertold first touched her, Alain Daviot knows her fate is sealed. The waves of desire she feels in his arms override her fears... including her haunting suspicions that Nicholas killed her brother. As Nicholas’s bride, Alain is swept from the English countryside to the gay salons of nineteenth-century Paris, and then to Nicholas’s home, the magnificent, imposing Chateau Bertold. There, she is powerless against her hunger for this man accused of an unspeakable crime. Does she really know the mysterious Nicholas Bertold—her lover, her husband—the man who holds her so utterly spellbound in a web of dark desire?