The one man Elise Dumond has always craved is the one man she should not have in her bed - or in her heart. Elise Dumond has always done her duty to her aging husband. But when the lovely Countess learns her dying spouse has paid a bounty to her childhood friend to father a child with her, Elise trembles at the prospect of being possessed by the famous knight who is now a legendary lover. Simon de la Poer is determined to claim Elise in all the imaginative ways he has yearned for these past ten years. As he teaches her the joys of exotic pleasure, she revels in their passion. Their rekindled love burns fast and bright, inciting their enemies to try to tear them apart with lies—and murder.

Book two in the Swords of Passion Series When a king's man claims a woman he shouldn't have, he chains her to him anyway with bonds of desire that rival all the king's men. Will Dunwick takes one look at lush widow Blanche Bergeron and knows she can never be his. But when she runs from him—and he chains her to him lest she flee again—he binds himself to her body, heart and soul. Can Will free himself of his obsession—or will both of them lose their lives for a love affair they should never have consummated?