title: Sweet Ransom
author: Madl, Linda
description: IN A SAVAGE LAND, SHE WAS A NOBLEWOMAN OF PRIDE AND PASSION  --  AND A WARRIOR'S CAPTIVE!
  
  There was courage in her bearing and fire in her eyes as the ravishing golden-haired Countess faced down her Cossack captors. Elise Chatham Polonsky was unlike any woman the chieftain Nikholai Fomin had ever seen-and as his prisoner she challenged him as no man had ever dared before. Bargaining in flesh to search for the sister she loved, Elise drove him into the midst of revolution on the Russian steppes-even as he took her in a marriage of convenience to save his village from the Tsar. Nikholai Fomin, "the Wolf," had finally met his match in this rebellious beauty who rode at his side dressed as a Cossack boy, charging recklessly into battle in this strange and violent country where betrayal was a way of life and blood flowed like water in the river Don...a woman whose greatest fear was not death, but desire for this man who was her enemy-and her only hope.