From award-winning and best-selling author, Patricia Grasso, comes the second book in the romantic series about seven sisters who find love in Regency England. She has a gift for healing others . . . When raven-haired, violet-eyed Belle Flambeau suffers a brutal knife attack, she is left with a deep scar on her cheek and the pain of knowing she will never get her heart's desire... a husband and children. Until the day Prince Mikhail Kazanov spies her sitting in the garden of her father, the Duke of Inverary's home. He has a passion for loving her . . . A widower with a four-year-old daughter, Mikhail contrives with Belle's family to marry the gentle beauty and give his daughter Bess the loving mother she yearns for. Fighting off cruel barbs from the ton and an unknown murderer bent on slashing his victims, can Mikhail protect his wife from the dangers that threaten both her heart and very life?