No one mixes humor and sensuality like New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands with this captivating story of feuding nobles forced to marry…and destined to fall in like.

Like thy neighbor, ’tis said. A fine idea, except when the neighbor involved is definitely Lord Holden. Woman Helen Tiernay provides complained regularly about his treatment of his people. Too often perhaps, for the king intends to curb their continuous bickering by buying them to wed. Helen can’t refuse a royal decree, but she’ll do everything possible to operate a vehicle away her devilishly attractive husband-to-be.

Holden has faced most manner of horrors in the battlefield. But relationship to “the tyrant of Tiernay” continues to be a worrying prospect-until he glimpses Helen in the flesh. What flesh it is…soft, lush, made for his touch. If she weren’t so intent on thinking up devious methods to prevent consummating their connection, Helen would observe how perfect these are together, and that a marriage begun as opponents can change to absolute pleasure.