Her trust and love shattered by public humiliation and private indifference from a man who cared nothing for her happiness -- or her pleasure, Princess Christina was a woman trapped in a lonely and passionless marriage. If she was not precisely resigned to her fate, she was not tempted to change it, until she met an American marquis -- and temptation took on a new, solidly male form... The world of casual amours was Max Falconer's forte, not Christina's -- and well Max knew it. But he couldn't resist the look in her eyes -- shy, yet determined -- when she offered herself to him, much less the promise of sensual abandon with a woman who deserved every pleasure she had too long been denied...