Disputed inheritance leads to a forced marriage between strangers.

Betrayal. Desire. Love. Ghosts. Secret societies. The French Revolution. This regency historical has it all.

Ex-Naval officer, Lord Edmond Westmoreland, is forced to marry perfect stranger, Brigit Winnet, who is, by all accounts, a fallen woman raised in a brothel with no means to support herself. Edmond can only assume Brigit used her female wiles to manipulate his father into leaving everything he had to her. But when Edmond discovers a secret that could ruin her, he takes full advantage. For if Edmond is to inherit and become the new Lord Westmoreland, he must put aside his suspicions and marry her before time is up.

Meanwhile, the rumblings of the French Revolution shake the ground around England, causing all the titled nobility of London society to fear for their very lives.

Brigit, a young woman with the power to talk to animals and former companion to the late Lord Westmoreland, has been forced out of the only real home she has ever known. Refusing to become any man's governess or prostitute yet threatened by Lord Westmoreland on every level, she must put aside her fears if she is to return to the place she once called home and to her beloved Ardennes, Philimante.

But can she return if it means forsaking all that she has in the world? Is regaining her former life worth the price of her independence?