Bride
SHE WAS INNOCENCE...
Lady Justine Girvin, the Duke of Franchot's elegant spinster sister, decided to grab one last chance for happiness -- by doing something incredibly scandalous. Defying convention, she had traveled alone to a Scottish castle to find the mysterious Straun, her brother's friend, and to ask him to teach her all about love...

HE WAS DESIRE
Straun Rossmara, Viscount Hunsingore, was sequestered with his two young charges in the Highlands, trying to escape a sinister past that, through a blackmailer's scheme, was finally catching up with him. His dark secrets always kept him at a distance -- Justine's friend, never her lover. Now the suppressed fire within him leaped into flame at her guileless request, daring him to give her a lesson in a kind of passion she never knew existed and set loose a hunger that could damn -- or save -- them both.

Hero: Straun Rossmara, Viscount Hunsingore
Heroine: Lady Justine Girvin