He's obtained his freedom. Now he wants his wife backand revenge against the schemer who stole her . . .
Held at gunpoint by a highwayman near the Cornish coast, Laura Mawgan is shocked to discover that the charming masked stranger is none other than her husbandbelieved to have been killed by pirates two years ago, only days after their wedding.
Languishing in a French prison amid that country's violent unrest, Lucas Mawgan has dreamed of returning home to his young wifeand of taking revenge on Edward Carlyle, the man who separated them. The man who is now his "widow's" betrothed. Will Lucas prove that Carlyle is no gentleman, and get back in his wife's good gracesand back into her heart?