Arianne d'Ormeval leaves France as a young bride, bound for Martinique and the respectable life her family has chosen for her. But when tragedy strikes during the voyage, her carefully planned future is shattered, leaving her at the mercy of Guilhem Bellavoine, the enigmatic captain of L'Errante, known throughout the West Indies as the Albatross. Guilhem has spent years at sea, fiercely guarding his freedom and fleeing a past he refuses to reveal....

Winter does not disappear; spring arrives.Fate does not disappear; the possibility of choosing appears.The wound does not disappear; it simply stops ruling us.I have never known exactlywhen a story begins.Perhaps it is not when a character appears,nor when a first sentencefinds its place.Perhaps it begins much earlier.In a questionthat refuses to disappear.In something we carry inside usfor yearswit...

London, 1847.Ever since scarlet fever nearly claimed her life, Edith Eleanor Ashford has been trapped in a frail body and kept far from the life she longs for. There is only one person who can make her feel truly alive: Eirik Varg, the young Scandinavian who was taken in by her family when he was little more than an injured boy with no past.Eirik has loved her for years, but he refuses to acknowledge it. Edith belongs to a wo...