Publisher's Synopsis
Praise for Laura Kinsale:
"Magic and beauty flow from Laura Kinsale's pen."
-Romantic Times
"Readers should be enchanted."
-Publishers Weekly
"One of the best writers in the history of the romance genre."
-All About Romance
"Laura Kinsale delivers powerful, unique romance."
-Amanda Quick
"A writer who always provides a triumphant novel."
-Affaire de Coeur
She is seeking only to learn how to kill...
Lady Leigh Strachan has dressed as a boy and crossed all of France in search of her family's killer. Her only wish is to be trained to kill by a notorious highwayman, a legend throughout England, so she can avenge their deaths..
He's in hiding and desperately lonely...
The reclusive S.T. Maitland, once known as the Prince of Midnight, is now hiding out in a crumbling castle in France. He is deaf in one ear, suffers from vertigo, and is desperately longing for a woman's company. He seems revoltingly sentimental to the stoic Lady Leigh... When fate forces them onto a quest together, she discovers the dangerous and vital man behind the reputation, and he finds a way to touch her ice cold heart...
