Return to the New York Times bestselling Jude Deveraux's James River series with this passionate, enchanting, and breathtaking romance classic! Nicole Courtalain--a passionate French beauty--finds herself the victim of a case of mistaken identity when she is kidnapped by mistake and swept across turbulent seas to eighteenth century Virginia. There, she discovers the lush lands, rolling rivers, and astonishing plantations--and Clayton Armstrong, who awaited his English bride. What does their future have in store for them now that fate has changed their plans forever?