To Fortune Born — Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

A NUN'S COWL HID HER BEAUTY...

Jolie's luminous eyes looked at the handsome Scotsman, Rorke Campbell, from beneath the cowl of her habit. A foundling raised by the nuns of Strasbourg, she had defied the king by nursing a wounded Huguenot, and now she was running for her life. Pride masked her fear as she stood before a priest to wed the foreigner who agreed to marry her and help her escape to Britain. She had admired Rorke as a skillful physician. She had hoped to become his pupil to enhance her talents as a healer. She never dreamed of becoming his -- or any man's -- wife. Rebellious young Jolie burned with desire, but only for her ambition to be a doctor. She was as ignorant of the flames lit by passion as she was of her real name. But with Rorke's first kiss, she would discover the fires smouldering beneath her innocence . . . and neither treachery nor a dangerous truth could cool the white-heat of their love.