She was rumored to be the fairest woman in all of England.
But Holly de Chastel considered her beauty a curse. She
had already turned away scores of suitors with various
ruses, both fair and foul. Now she was to be the prize in
a tournament of eager knights gathering from across the
land, each more determined than the last to win her
hand...Holly had no intention of wedding any of them, and
concocted her most outrageous plan yet: to disguise her
beauty from their avaricious eyes. But she never planned
on Sir Austyn of Gavenmore.
The darkly handsome Welshman had come looking especially
for a plain bride and Holly seemed to fit the bill.
Suddenly she found herself in the possession of this
mysterious stranger, ensconced in his castle, and forced
to keep up her carefully planned illusion. Why did this
electrifyingly passionate male, who could have any woman
he wanted, desire a homely bride - and what would happen
when he learned he'd been tricked? By the time Holly found
out, it was too late to avoid the searing fires of
passion - and the dark curse of Gavenmore...