Romance, passion and intrigue from an author whose "novels are a rare treat for the lovers of deeply detailed, highly historical love stories" (Romantic Times).

Young, beautiful Morgan Todd may be a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn in the court of King Henry VIII, but she has only one desire: to be reunited with the man she loves—a Catholic who has fallen out of the king's good graces. But her uncle arranges a political marriage for her, sending heartsick Morgan to a loveless union and a desolate castle on the North Sea.

Then comes the cruelest blow of all: Morgan discovers that her husband's younger brother, Francis Sinclair, is the wild nobleman who once ravished her in a savage moment of passion. Francis stirs Morgan's desire in ways no other man ever could, and through the years of war, bloodshed, and games of power, she never stops yearning for him.

In a land where loyalties are divided, religion can be a curse, and the wrong choice between the king and the Pope can lead to torture, the Tower, and the executioner's block, Morgan and Francis will have to depend on their love for each other if they are to survive . . .