The Banished Bride

Aurora and Alexander have been married for thirteen years-although one would hardly know it. They cannot distinguish each otherrs"s laughter. Neither recognizes the otherrs"s intimate caresses. Because the last-and first-time Alexander saw his wife was at their wedding, and even then, it was through a thick veil and the haze of drinkhellip;Married off at tender ages by their families, Aurora and Alexander have since carved out separate lives for themselves-hers, a chaste one at home, and his, a worldly soldierrs"s life. So when Alexander is sent on a mission, using a nom de guerre, to find a traitorous woman spy, and mistakes the fiery-tongued Aurora for his enemy, little does he know he holds his own wife (also under an assumed name) captive. And when the embers of passion are stirred into perilous flames licking at their reserve, the two know they must soon succumb to their desirehellip;