Lady Rosetta Montgomery is on her way to her wedding when she's kidnapped by a rider dressed all in black. She discovers her abductor is Lord Ashton Blakeley, her first and only true love, who left her to go on Crusade. Ash is a changed man now, with disfiguring scars and agonizing secrets. As rumors of lost Anglo-Saxon gold and treachery unfold, and Rosetta grows to understand the man Ash has become, will she help him fight for their love, or will the danger surrounding the hidden riches cost them all that they treasure?

Days before Christmas, Pitt Rutherford is blackmailed into planning an attack on Millenstowe Keep. He discovers, however, that Lady Blythe Welborne, the only woman he's ever truly loved, is within the castle's walls. As the attack draws ever near, Pitt must choose whether his obligation to claim a legendary treasure is worth more than a second chance at true love. An Outlaw's Desire was previously published in the [Merry Mayhem](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54839250.MerryMayhem " Merry Mayhem") anthology.