But when she's wedded, bedded and dispatched alone to his country estate, the timid beauty discovers one night of passion has ignited a bold inner fire.
While his lovely green-eyed bride is out of sight, she is not far from Andrew's mindโand when Olivia is abducted by French spies, the earl fears he may lose what he's only just found. Yet the wife he races to rescue is a far cry from the gentle bride he abandoned. She's a woman who dares to demand forever after from her husband....
Rosemary Rogersโs life reads like one of her incredibly adventurous novels. Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to wealthy parents, Rosemary Jansz was raised in colonial splendourโwaited upon by servants, a private education, summers at the finest European spas. Shocking her family by becoming a reporter, she was to amaze them by marrying a Ceylonese sprinter known as โthe fastest man in Asia.โ Fed up with his racing after other women, Rosemary took their two children and relocated to London. Here she met LeRoy Rogersโan American G.I. They were married and relocated to California. Six years later, that marriage also broke up and Rosemary found herself employed as a typist supporting four children and her parents who joined her in the U.S. after they escaped Ceylonโall their possessions and wealth confiscatedโin the face of a socialist takeover of the island. However, good fortune was in the wind for Rosemary and her family. As a child, Rosemary had written novels in the manner of her favourite novelistsโSir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatiniโand had continued to do so throughout her teenage years. Now, as an escape, she would rewrite and rewrite one of those childhood stories. She had completed her 24th draft when her daughterโa fan of historical romancesโdiscovered it and urged her mother to send it to a publisher. The rest is history. That first book, SWEET SAVAGE LOVEโnow available from MIRA Booksโwas an immediate sensation and shot to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List. Fourteen more books followedโall New York Times bestsellersโand Rosemaryโs status as the โQueen of Historical Romanceโ was unquestioned.