This wasn't Anne Stuart's first romance with a military hero, but the nun heroine was a new twist—one the author still gets a kick out of.

After making a deathbed promise to an army buddy, Reilly travels to a wartorn country to rescue his friend's wife and child. But the woman he finds is nothing like the woman he imagined.

Carlie, a novice with the Sisters of Benevolence, stays behind to care for an expectant woman when the rest of the convent's nuns flee. After the new mother dies, Carlie is determined to save her infant boy from the rebels who would kill him.

Then a gruff American shows up to take her and the baby to safety. Can Carlie trust Reilly? And can she trust herself to resist the temptation to give in to just one night of passion?

Previously published.