"A true storyteller, Laura Kinsale has managed to break all the rules of standard romance writing and come away shining." -San Diego Union-TribuneIntent on revenge, she is seeking only to learn how to kill.Lady Leigh Strachan has dressed as a boy and crossed all of France in search of her family's killer. Her only wish is to be trained to kill so she can avenge their deaths at the hands of a demented cult leader.Nobleman and highwayman, he's in hiding now, and desperately lonely.The reclusive S.T. Maitland, nobleman and highwayman, was once known as the Prince of Midnight. Now he's hiding out in a crumbling castle in France with a tame wolf as his pet. He is deaf in one ear, suffers from vertigo, and is desperately longing for a woman's company. He seems revoltingly sentimental to the stoic Lady Leigh.But when they're forced onto a quest together, she discovers the dangerous and vital man behind the reputation, and he finds a way to touch her ice-cold heart.

Publication Year: 1990