Michel Géricault has spent his entire life searching for the chance to restore honor to his father's memory. But nothing could have prepared him for what the Fates had decreed—that his stolen bride, Jerusa Sparhawk, would become the thief of his heart. Though Jerusa Sparhawk fair dazzled as a rose-crowned bride, her girlish dreams of marriage were not to be. A soul-transforming passion in the person of Michel Géricault had swept her away from the bridal bower, near drowning her in his legacy of danger...and desire.