In the first novel of the Brides trilogy, in which three unconventional young women vow they will never marry-only to be overtaken by destiny-outspoken Portia finds forever love.
It's bad enough that seventeen-year-old Portia Worth is taken in by her uncle, the marquis of Granville, after her father dies. As the bastard niece, Portia knows she can expect little beyond a roof over her head and a place at the table.
But it truly adds insult to injury when the Granvilles' archenemy, the outlaw Rufus Decatur, hatches a scheme to abduct the marquis's daughter-only to kidnap Portia by accident.
Portia, who possesses more than a streak of independence as well as a talent for resistance, does not take kindly to being abducted-mistakenly or otherwise.
Decatur will soon find himself facing the challenge of his life, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom, as he contends with this misfit of a girl who has the audacity to believe herself the equal of any man.
- ISBN10 0671530232
- ISBN13 9780671530235
- Publish Date 2 September 1984 (first published 8 January 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English