Fiction. Literature. Romance. HTML:Beautiful, brilliant, independent, she had it allâ??until she met the one man who couldnâ??t play by her rules

Peach de Courmontâ??Wild child, teenage temptress, exquisite woman.  The adored granddaughter of Leonie and heiress to the de Courmont dynasty, she grew up in luxury, used to having lifeâ??and loveâ??on her own terms.

Noel Maddoxâ??Raised in an Iowa orphanage, used to the mean streets of Detroit, he fought his way from the assembly line the pinnacle of power.  Peach â??and the automobile empire she commandedâ??were part of the dream he meant to have . . .  at any price.

From wartime Paris to the dazzling Cote dâ??Azue . . . from the frenetic boardrooms of Detroit and the palatial homes of Grosse Pointe to the stately English countryside, their indomitable wills collide in a saga of consuming passion and raw power played out against the backdrop of