from our rave review:Isabel de Lamere is on her way to her wedding with a man she's never met when her coach is stopped by brigands intent on kidnapping her. The leader of these brigands is a man named Griffin of Droghollow, who just happens to be the grown version of the brave boy who had saved young Isabel's life many years before. She has thought of him as a hero since, but upon learning that Griffin is delivering her to his foster brother, the conniving Lord Dominic, her golden image of heroism is shattered.Griffin, raised as a son to Dominic's father, is a born leader and a man among men. Dominic has always hated his foster brother for stealing their father's affections from him. He has treated his brother cruelly, and torn Griffin's beloved honor away, bit by bit, in the many years since their father's death. Now Griffin is a man who has no honor left, and hates himself for it. When he realizes that his brother will not pay him for capturing Isabel, he steals her away, not out of honor, but out of a desire for enough reward money from her intended groom to break free of his brother's cruel grasp forever. Dominic seizes the opportunity to declare his brother an outlaw, and lays a bounty upon Griffin and Isabel's heads, setting them on the run, without allies.It is as fugitives that Griffin and Isabel come to know each other again, and it is in that hopeless state that they fall in love. Griffin finally confesses his sins to Isabel, in the hope of saving her from loving a man who has no honor, and in her forgiveness, he is reborn as the gentle knight who saved her so long ago. But King Richard has decreed that she must wed Lord Montford, and by kidnapping her, Griffin is already guilty of treason. They cannot possibly be together for more than a brief while, but they mean to make that while last forever.