Their marriage shocked the most corrupt court in EuropeAnne de Bernard, was the richest heiress in France in 1745, and a beautiful bride to be given into a marriage of convenience. Charles Macdonald, an impoverished Scottish nobleman, was the most handsome and notorious young rake in the royal entrouage - no woman was immune to his charms, no man safe from his sword. The wealthy and sheltered Anne was a young woman whose angelic beauty was matched by her spotless innocence. When Anne enters an arranged marriage to Charles, with a reputation for having no morals, and discovers that she is falling in love with her husband. Neither could imagine that their marriage of convenience could defied the power of the king himself....