<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Driven by duty he rushes to help her.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Elizabeth von Rittenburg-Liesel as she is known-is a princess with a plan. She'll save her sisters and young brother from the French who would abduct and ransom them to get her renegade older brother Crown Prince Rainer to turn himself in to the French.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Liesel has always made her own rules disrupting London society and refusing to marry her betrothed a dispeptic British prince. She ignores those who would dampen her exuberant nature. Now to save her family she will do anything even barge into a stranger's bathing room and upbraid him for his failures while the poor fellow stands before her naked.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Torn by desire he must save her then leave her...if he can bear to let her go.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dirk Lord Fournier is heaven to look at. A charming devil to be near. But he agrees to help her. After all rescuing dispossessed European royalty from the clutches of the French is his specialty.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's failed at so much else but he'll do her bidding. He'll save her family. He'll even save her reputation damn his righteous soul...but must never touch her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her fire is enchanting. Her kisses an ineluctable lure. Still a crown princess is not for him. He's a mere baron English at that and a spy in Scarlett Hawthorne's network.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>He's unworthy of Liesel his reputation tarnished by a lie he ruined a woman denied her claim and left her alone to bear the shame.</em></strong></p>