Lady Emma de Leon has just seen the man she knows will—nay, must—become her lover. Ambivalent as she is about her psychic gifts, she has been unable to forget the man who once came to her in a vision, touching her body with his strong hands and piercing her with desire. Now here he is, in the flesh—and Emma can't resist risking all for this dark-eyed stranger who's accused of murder. A mercenary by trade, Darian of Bruges finds himself in the center of a royal plot—and forced to marry Emma by the king's decree. Wed only to his freedom, the last thing he wants is a wife. But to confront his past and inherit his future, he must do what he finds hardest of all: surrender to a woman…