A devoted artist, Elizabeth Blackthorne has earned a scandalous reputation with her free-spirited ways -- she's been known to run about unchaperoned and even pose nude. But Englishman Derrick Jamison is uncharted territory. He acts like a foppish dandy, yet his disarming smile and intoxicating touch inspire feelings more extraordinary than her reputation. Beth Blackthorne bowled him over the day they met. True, the fire-haired American didn't mean to topple him, but the fit of her lush body against his completely distracts Derrick from his mission of spying against Napoleon. From the United States to Italy to England, her siren call beckons until he knows the only safe harbor he will find is in her arms.