Exiled from their tiny country after a rebellion, Princess
Amy and her older sister survive by selling cosmetics
incognito in English and Scottish villages. Warned that
assassins follow them, they never stay long at any
location. Amy rages against the world that can never be.
She abandons her sister and strikes out on her own. Through
misadventure, Amy arrives at a small fishing village where
she encounters severe poverty due to a disinterested owner.
Wishing to repay the villagers for their kindness, Amy
tries to alleviate their poverty with a scheme to kidnap
and ransom the owner. The kidnapping proves simple. The
ransom proves impossible. No one wants the landowner
returned.
Jermyn, Marquess of Northcliff, returns to his estate to
recuperate from a carriage injury. Bored by the locals'
activities and his convalesces, Jermyn snarls at his
servants and is oblivious to the shabbiness surrounding his
estate. Business does not interest him; he leaves all of
his estate management to his uncle. Jermyn receives his
allowances and has no money worries due to his uncle's
supervision of his finances. When a mere young woman
succeeds in kidnapping him, Jermyn is appalled at her gall.
When his uncle refuses to pay his ransom, Jermyn
reevaluates his life.
Manacled to the wall, Jermyn must listen as Amy taunts him
for his arrogance. The fights enflame their passion until
they give in to lust. Their ardor gives way to love, but
their relationship is threatened when Amy commits the one
sin Jermyn cannot forgive.
Master storyteller Christina Dodd pens the second
story in her Lost Princess series. Readers' expectations
are certainly met while watching the transformation of the
feisty heroine and oblivious Jermyn into caring human
beings with the capacity to forgive and love.
Once upon a time...in a kingdom high in the Pyrenees,
three young princesses were forced to flee the chaos in
their land -- vanishing without a trace and lost to their
people...until the day a courageous prince can bring each
princess home.
Life in exile has taught the passionate Princess Amy to
hate injustice, and on the enchanting English isle of
Summerwind, she finds injustice personified in the
powerful and wickedly handsome Jermyn Edmondson, marquess
of Northcliff. Since he has stolen the islanders'
livelihood, Amy decides to steal him. She kidnaps the
arrogant nobleman, chains him with his own manacles, and
holds him for ransom.
It's a simple plan, destined to succeed. Surely Jermyn's
uncle will pay his ransom. Alas, his uncle would be
delighted if someone killed his nephew and left him to
inherit the title and fortune. And holding the furious,
guileful, sensual Jermyn chained in her basement provides
a challenge to Amy's restraint...and her virtue.
How could such a little revenge and blackmail go so
passionately wrong?
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