Bride of Fortune

Nicholas Fortune is a war-weary mercenary who has wandered across the world searching for a home. Raised in a New Orleans bordello, Nick has never belonged anywhere. His only loyalty is to himself until, amid the flames of revolution, he takes another man’s identity...and his wife. Mercedes Alvarado is a half-English, half-Spanish heiress whose delicate golden beauty conceals a spine of steel. She survives the desertion of her husband, the scorn of his aristocratic family and the ravages of civil war, holding together a grand estate until her soldier husband returns to claim it...and her. The dark and dangerous man who rides home to that birthright touches her soul with fiery need. He becomes the husband of her heart, but is he really Lucero Alvarado...or a stranger with her husband’s face?