The first book in the international best-selling "Catherine" series of Historical romances, back in print in the English language for the first time in decades. Set in turbulent 15th Century France, young Catherine Legoix grows into a woman of dangerous beauty. Her distinctive violet eye and stunning mane of golden hair inflame the desires of the powerful Duke Philippe, who schemes to make her his mistress by having her unwillingly married to the hugely wealthy emotionally distant Royal Treasurer. Yet still Catherine seems unable to win the heart of the one man whose love she truely craves.