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A Solemn Vow

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Southern France, 1798

The French Revolution has drastically changed the nature of France and for almost ten years, its people lived in terror, more particularly those of the nobility and the religious. 

An abbey and its occupants are held hostage by a group of Revolutionaries from Paris. All that stands between a massacre and mercy is a young novice and her acceptance of her fate--a forced marriage to a man who deserved to burn in the fires of Hell. Yet it is herself that she finds burning...

William Devereaux had one mission--get the hell out of France. And he was willing to go far beyond the call of duty-and a promise from his youth-to achieve it. It brought him instead to a godforsaken abbey where an unforgotten face appears to him again after many years. She has secrets that plague the Revolutionaries and the guillotine is not far behind her neck. In order to save them both, he has to make a deal with the devil himself...and seal their doom with a promise and a kiss...All Rights Reserved

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