Lady Emily Marlowe is beautiful, independent, and unspoiled. Deaf since childhood, she appreciates her family's efforts to nurture her spirit, but the man they've chosen for her betrothal can never fulfill her. The only one Emily has ever desired is bold and reckless Lord Ashley Kendrick. Her childhood amour inspired her fantasies and vowed never to forget her-even as he left her for a new life in India and a new love. Seven years and countless dreams...

Working as a spy during the Peninsular Wars, Jeanne, the widowed daughter of a royalist �emigr�e, rediscovers her love for a British captain she was forbidden to marry years earlier.