Louisa Rawlings

A rapturous story of a lovely young pickpocket in 18th century France who joins in a get-rich scheme and is swept up in danger, luxury, and perilous love. From the author of Stolen Spring and Forever Wild.

Orphaned at birth and shuttled between foster homes, CIA agent Merrick Grayslake has made a practice of not letting anyone get close to him. But he finds that his emotions are at risk when he is introduced to Alexandra Cole.It has been all work and not enough play for Alex. And what little social life she's had has been on hold for a year while she completes her graduate degree. But her ordinary everyday life changes from the moment she meets Merrick Grayslake.

DEEP IN AMERICA'S MOST GLORIOUS WILDERNESS, THE DARKNESS WAS SEDUCTION, THE DAWN BLAZING DESIRE ... MARCY. A child of the mountains, as beautiful as the land she once loved, she yearned for a new life and the new love that would make all her dreams come true. DREW. Irresistibly handsome to women, he scorned his wealthy past and chose the life of an artist and the sweet woman whose kisses he could not resist. WILLOUGH. A proper lady, a passionate woman, she was Drew's sister, striving for the family's steel empire in the American wilderness, hungering for a rugged man's embrace. NAT. Brawny and good-looking, he had to fight for the woman he loved and their cherished life together in an untamed land ...