Presumed dead in battle, Captain Matthew Leland's sudden appearance gives the ton quite the shock. But no one is more surprised than Matthew, because waiting for him is a bewitching woman who claims to be his wife!
Miss Emily Grey was alone in the world when a knight in shining armor came to her rescue, claimed her heart, and then disappeared. But now her little white lie, a desperate act of self-preservation, has come back to haunt her. Her husband, once a far-off fantasy, is now a flesh-and-blood man.
Matthew is determined to expose her, but a life with the exquisite Emily will prove irresistible...and a marriage of deception will become a marriage of sweet surrender.

After a detour through fitness instructing and computer programming, Gayle Callen found the life she'd always dreamed of as a writer. This USA Today bestselling author has written more than twenty-five novels and has won the Holt Medallion, the Laurel Wreath Award, the Booksellers' Best Award, and the National Readers' Choice Award. Her books have been translated into eleven different languages.An avid crafter, singer, and outdoor enthusiast, and the mother of three grown children, Gayle lives in Central New York with her husband, Jim. She also writes contemporary romances as Emma Cane.