A Heart across the Ocean

Fate cannot escape its guilty charge. Should the truth be discovered the night watchman could detain Madeleine Bourbonnais once more...A ward of King Louis XIV Madeleine escapes from a Parisian hospital by accepting the kings dowry which frees her to immigrate to New France and secure a husband. Given her past and her condition shes an unlikely candidate for the filles du Roi initiative but when she arrives in the new world she ashamedly accepts the admiration of a brave officer hoping this handsome man could be the remedy for her misfortune.A Captain in the Carignan-Salières Regiment and a second son Julian Benoit would never inherit the family estate so he travelled to New France to serve and protect the French colony from Iroquois conflicts. When his commanding officer forces the statute of marriage he complies with the edict succumbing to a pretty mademoiselle but hes ill-equipped for her hidden truth.Will Madeleine accept the challenges waiting to be borne in the new world? Can Julian recognize that this is the woman hes been waiting for and take her deeper into his heart and the demanding life of the Canadian wilderness or annul their marriage and send her back to France gambling the lives of all involved?