Dreams of Lilacs

The de Piaget Family

She is determined to elude her overprotective family with a hasty escape to France…

En route to France, with hopes of surprising her brother there, Isabelle de Piaget is shipwrecked on the French coast with no memory of who she is or how she came to awaken in the dark, forbidding castle of an equally brooding lord.

Gervase de Seger rescues—very reluctantly—the bedraggled urchin he finds on the road and puts her to work where he can ignore her. Unfortunately, he soon realizes that her brother is an intimidating lord who is going to be absolutely furious when he learns that his beloved sister has been laboring as a scullery maid. Yet Isabelle may be the one who holds the key to solving Gervase’s most pressing problems: that someonehas been trying to finish the task of separating him from his title and his lands.

Finding the truth propels Gervase and Isabelle from the buried secrets of half-ruined keeps to the glittering French court, and to the realization that love can blossom in the most perilous circumstances—and in the most unexpected places of the heart…