The beauty...
An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant...and bored - which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumour has it her intended is hideous - a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless relationship with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day.
The beast...
Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancee's ship - and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. It was he who was smitten - while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart - unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.
