Surrender by Moonlight

California, 1821 — It was a golden land of unsurpassed beauty, a wild land of dangerous desperadoes, a moonlit land of dark-eyed senoritas hiding flirtatious smiles behind black lace fans. — Dimitri Varonov -- A stranger to California, the dashing Russian nobleman was determined to lay claim to a vast rancho and the spirited senoritas whose sons would safeguard it.

Leonor de Reyes -- Aristocratic and beautiful, she was the key to Dimitri's ambitious schemes, yet how could he convince her that their marriage was no merely one of convenience, but a joining that would send them both soaring on wings of ecstasy.