She had known the innocent love of childhood - she had trusted and been betrayed. And now, aboard a ship for the New World, another man wooed her with dark murmurings of strange pleasures. He was an outcast, traveling under an alias, bound for Virgin...
From the corrupt courts of Louis XIV to the frivolous follies of an Italian company of players to a cloistered castle in Brittany, convent-bred Julie de Simon searched for her runaway cousin, Marie-Madeleine. Instead, she found Marie's bold guardi...