The Countess Bride

AS A BRIDE, SHE WAS WORTHLESS

Indeed, Catherine de Severin could offer nothing in the way of power and land.

A penniless orphan with a shadowed past, she was not a suitable match for a comte destined to control vast holdings. But Geoffrey Dumont cared not, and would defy anyone -- even royalty -- who kept his fair Cate from him!

A loving marriage denied her, her memory a blur,

Catherine de Severin had accepted her cloistered fate. But when Geoffrey Dumont, her soulfriend and truest love, abducted her from the nunnery, afire with reckless plans for a future together, her heart embraced him with a passion too strong to be denied!