From the moment he arrived to rescue her. Diane Albret saw lnore in the darkly handsome, charismatic gentleman than lust a guardian. Over the years that had passed since she first saw Daniel St. John, he had become, quite simply, the most dangelously irresistible man she had ever imagined. Diane herself had changed fi'om a bewildered schoolgirl, tragically orphaned, to a determined young woman of alluring charm and beauty...

From the moment he arrived to rescue her. Diane Albret saw lnore in the darkly handsome, charismatic gentleman than lust a guardian. Over the years that had passed since she first saw Daniel St. John, he had become, quite simply, the most dangelously irresistible man she had ever imagined. Diane herself had changed fi'om a bewildered schoolgirl, tragically orphaned, to a determined young woman of alluring charm and beauty. Now leaving the cloistered life of her school, she has been brought to Daniel's home with dreams of her own amid rumors and hints of scandal. But the legendary seducer seems to have other plans for Diane and a secret about her lost past that he will do everything to keep: a secret that will put both their lives in jeopardy, even as the passion they have denied for so long threatens to break out of all control.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28