A Heart So Innocent

A high-spirited young beauty, she knew nothing of love's treacherous rhapsody...

UNITED BY CHANCE, THEY WERE MATCHED IN DANGEROUS PRIDE -- AND DESPERATE PASSION

Queen Victoria herself had decreed it: Lady Aidan Prescott must marry. The girl was too wild -- a husband would settle her. But Aidan would never accept her irate father's choice, a wealthy older man who had already buried two wives. She fled London, placing her life in the hands of the arrogantly handsome young Duke of Westover, Justin Warfield, who was to escort her to a Scottish estate where a younger, more compliant bridegroom awaited.

Warfield was fascinated by the copper-haired beauty ... torn between a surging desire for his naive, rebellious charge and the dark legacy which kept him from giving his heart to any woman. The sparks of fate ignited when Aidan's father forced them to marry. Furious, each vowed to live separate lives, refusing to yield to the desire that so urgently flamed between them. But not even the force of their combined wills could quench the inferno that raged in their souls...