Book excerpt: The Beauty Had Wed The Beast, And London Was Rife With Rumour What really went on in the marriage bed of Lady Madelyn Fairchild and Jean–Luc Gavereau? For a celebrated beauty of the ton could never have gone willingly into the arms of a common gambler scarred in body and soul! Madelyn had looked beyond the fire–ravaged visage Jean–Luc wore like a badge of defiance and had seen her salvation. A true lover who swore he would vanquish the ghosts of her past, even as she vowed to sacrifice everything to safeguard his future ! "Another triumph for Gayle Wilson." Affaire de Coeur