Summoned like a serving girl to the king, Laura Cambridge was hired as nanny to Richard Blackthorne’ s secret child. Rumors about this hulking recluse didn’ t daunt Laura— her beauty-queen past had taught her the inner person didn’ t always match the facade. But Richard’ s heart was as painfully scarred as his chiseled features… .To Richard, lovely Laura was like candy dangled in front of a baby— he was offered the sweet, but denied the taste. Yet sometimes grizzly bears enjoyed a taste of honey… and in fiction the disfigured Mr. Rochester won the love of Jane Eyre. So Richard dared to woo his green-eyed goddess, gambling that— like Jane— Laura would one day declare, “ Reader, I married him.”