title: Gabrielle's Gamble
author: Dunn, Carola
description: BESIEGED BY LOVE
  
  Gabrielle Darcy locked the door to her yellow stone townhouse and rode into the grey mist of a Swiss dawn, accompanied by her beloved brother. With their old nurse recently buried, the motherless pair was bound for London, where their English father, absent for nearly a year on secret business, had instructed them to seek refuge with family friends. At nineteen, curly-haired Gabrielle knew little of adventure and less of love. Soon, however, she would have her fill of both; for as she crossed Europe--England and France crossed swords. Spirited Gaby would dodge French soldiers, encounter British spies, and be wounded by gunfire only to be rescued by the tall, dark-haired, and dashing Luke Everett. The mysterious, charming, yet arrogant aristocrat caught Gabrielle's fancy, but in a world besieged by war, how could she trust him? Little did she dream that amid the glitter and whirl of London society he would reappear to rescue her again...and try to capture her heart for his own.