Love Comes Unbidden
EXILED HEARTS

Frances Clifford valued her family's manor above all the rubies and pearls in the world. But it would take more than a king's ransom to win Four Winds back after Queen Elizabeth accused her dead father of having stolen a priceless jewel--and awarded the estate to a foreign courtier. When the queen ordered her to marry the very man who had invaded her life, Frances vowed not to let him plunder her virtue as well.

But Gaston de Vere was determined Frances would be mistress of his heart as well as his home. To claim the boundless treasures of her love, Gaston would guide Frances on a dangerous quest to prove her father's innocence. Only when the past was laid to rest could Gaston hope to conquer the yearning, rebellious beauty who stirred a hungry passion within him.