Brooks was gallant, handsome, and loved her dearly, and perhaps Phoebe loved him in return. But thoughts of her betrothed fled the evening her brother enlisted her aid with his rebel cause--and Phoebe met her match with Meredith Carruthers, The Tyrant.

His handsome face and devilish eyes befit Lucifer himself. Worse, when Phoebe's outraged father discovered the two of them alone--Carruthers was forced to offer for her!!