From safe, snug Victorian England - to the savage, passionate Russia of the Tsars Beautiful, orphaned Hannah Sheridan could not dream of the destiny that awaited her when she set out to find her lost brother on the bloody battlefields of the Crimea. How could she imagine that should would be saved from lusting Cossacks by a Russian aristocrat who awoke desires she did not suspect she possessed? That she would be captive on a vast, isolated estate rife with evil intrigue and brutal violence? That she would hold the fate of a noble family in her hands, and surrender her body and heart to a man who might betray both? That she would face a choice between two ways of life and love that threatened to tear her apart...?