Tender the Storm — Elizabeth Thornton

She blossomed from waif-like child to passionate and desirable beauty...

She was an engaging young lady of the French aristocracy... He was a daring English nobleman turned secret agent...

Together, Zoe Devereux and the man she knew only as "Rolphe" fled across a wartorn France to the safety of England. Finding it impossible to abandon the innocent girl to London's street:,, Rolphe Brockford, the Marquess of Rivard, scandalized society by making Zoe his wife, though in name only. But as Zoe blossomed from waif-like child to passionate and desirable beauty, the rules of the game changed. And nothing would ever--could ever--be the same again...