A woman embarks on a perilous journey of deception and desire that takes her from eighteenth-century Charleston to England in this sweeping historical romance. Bragen Alexander has spent years searching for the one whose lies about a crime could send Bragen to the gallows. But not until he encounters the fierce beauty Nichole Heatherton does finding that man become a possibility. If Nichole leads Bragen to Bodine, her ex-fiancé, he promises to bring her along on a tempestuous ocean crossing. In a masquerade that leads the two on a stormy journey, they find themselves forced to wed and to acknowledge their undeniable passion for each other.
