As the daughter of a prominent St. Michel head of state, Margeaux Broussard was indeed the girl who'd had everything--except the love of her father. Schoolmate Henri Lejardin was the only one she could count on...for companionship and so much more. At sixteen that "so much more" persuaded her father to send her away. And away she'd stayed, for sixteen years.

Now her father's illness has brought her back. But she's no longer the wild child Henri remembers. Instead she's a beautiful, accomplished woman and, try as he might, he can't resist her. Yet resist he must, because her checkered past might cost him his political future. Except suddenly he can't help envisioning a different future for himself--one with Margeaux by his side....