Book excerpt: Lord Kirkheathe's first wife was dead, and though his liege lorddeemed him guiltless, rumor yet tarred his reputation. Now ElizabethPerronet found herself his newly wedded bride with a question of herown: If Raymond D'Estienne were truly no savage, how had he unleashedin her things so…untamed and wild?Or so believed Raymond D'Estienne, courtesy of his late wife. What,then, was he to make of the remarkable Elizabeth Perronet, fresh fromthe convent and determined to change his life—in ways he'd neverdreamed!