She came to betray him...
No one could have known the truth: that the beauty who swept into the elegant ballroom was a pirate queen with a treacherous plan. To save herself from execution, she must identify an infamous privateer attending the ball in disguise. Only Maureen Hawthorne can expose the double life and lies of Julien d'Artiers, the toast of the ton. After all, she was his wife...
But he caught her heart unawares...
Julien is stunned to discover the wife—he loved and lost—is alive. But here she is—determined to bring about his complete ruin. And while Maureen's sworn to see him hang, Julien has other ideas. tormenting her with memories of the passion they once shared, determined to right the wrongs between them, and willing to do anything to keep from losing her again. As their enemies circle closer ready to see them both hanged, they forge an uneasy alliance that quickly becomes a temptation neither can resist.
