(Tudor
Rose Book 1)



Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony,
King Henry VIII punishes an insolent nobleman by commanding him to marry the
vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter
widower, long accustomed to the sovereign's capricious and malicious whims. He
regards his new bride as utterly inconvenient…though undeniably fetching.




But Juliana Romanov is no ordinary thief—she is
a Russian princess forced into hiding by the traitorous cabal who slaughtered
her family. One day she hopes to return to Muscovy to seek vengeance.




What begins as a mockery of a marriage
ultimately blossoms into deepest love