As quiet and dangerous as a jungle cat, achieving the impossible is one of Luc Garnier's defining characteristics. Princess Gabrielle is invaluable — a pearl beyond price. Yet Luc has defied the odds, and a contract for marriage is drawn up. This will be a union on paper first...and in the bedroom later.

Except Gabrielle is just the same in private as in public — well-bred, well behaved and a credit to her country. Luc is determined to find the wanton within and leave his pure princess in total disarray!