She was an exquisite Scottish heiress with an urgent need for the safety of marriage - her only protection from a villainous cousin and every other fortune-hunting scoundrel who coveted her vast estate. He was everything she'd been warned against - a ruthlessly handsome English rogue whose brazenly sensual blue eyes spoke of pleasure beyond imagining. How she wished she dared to love such a man...to believe the whispered murmurings of his passionate promise and her own heart...and to follow the dreams he offered her.