Colonel Tyrone Rycroft possessed many women, but none of them managed to win his heart - until the day when he miraculously saved a proud Russian aristocrat from certain death. The beauty of this mysterious woman blinded Tyrone - and for the first time in his life, the courageous Englishman knew not a fleeting desire, but true love. Passionate, irresistible, ardent love. Love, for the sake of which he would, without hesitation, put his life on the line...To my granddaughter Amber Erin, who transformed our entire family.