The Autumn Wife

A runaway wife. A dangerous man. A passion worth the peril.

Cecile Tremblay vows she'll never be a victim again. The twenty-four-year-old King's Girl escapes an abusive husband-a hanging offense, by the frontier laws of rough-and-tumble Montreal. Determined to avoid the noose, Cecile grasps a last-ditch way to secure sanctuary by joining a convent.

But she didn't expect to meet Theo Martin, a burly, broad-muscled stonemason overseeing the building of the convent's nearby chape...