from fictiondb: After ten years in Paris under the protection of the elderly Marquis Philippe de Maupilier, Madeleine Vaubonne was well aware that she was mistakenly thought to be his mistress. Even so, it was a nasty surprise when Lucian de Valori, the Comte de Regnay, offered to replace Philippe in her bed! She forcefully refused his proposition, but when Philippe died Lucian was the only one to offer help. Reluctantly she agreed to his escort to her home in Brittany, the start of a journey neither had expected to make....