Tamarisk // Antoinette — Claire Lorrimer

The daughter of the French Vicomte Gerard de Valle and a English illegitimate lady, she has inherited her mother's exquisite beauty and her reckless, passionate, impulsive sensuous nature. She grew to womanhood during England's most exciting time, the Regency.

The fabulous era of scandalous, irresistible Lord Byron... of fine ladies tarrying in elegant salons... of highwaymen and gypsy caravans and dazzling masquerade balls. The Princess Charlotte was her best friend. Lord Byron himself was attracted to her! Could any woman desire more?

Capricious, she could -- and did. She consideres her mother as a rival, because she is irresistibly drawn to her mother's former lover, Sir Peregrine Waite. It was almost inevitable that he only sees her as a child and does not yield to her loving advances, although he would be drawn in a passionate attachment to her.

Burning with fury and humiliation at his rejection, she becomes involved with a notorious philanderer poet and finds herself plunged into disgrace and degradation. But her love still remained for Sir Peregrine, the man whose dangerous secret she had uncovered -- the secret he shared with her mother. She would travel half a continent in pursuit of the one man she wanted. And she would experience all the joy and pain of an unrequited love before achieving the triumphant consummation of her desire of love...

Set against a stunning background of the wealthy and privileged in Europe, this is a scorching, tempestuous sequel.