My Lady Midnight — Laurie Grant

A noblewoman is forced by her uncle, an ally of King Stephen, to kidnap the children of her sworn enemy, not knowing that she will fall in love with that enemy, or that the secret of his son's birth could cost a royal crown.
A Norman widow becomes a political pawn when she is forced to go undercover as a governess in the home of the baron she believes responsible for the death of her best friend.

Alain, Baron of Hawkswell, knew his children's winsome nursemaid was not all she seemed. Nay, beneath her serf's homespun lay a golden soul whose mysterious allure would change his life forever...!

Lady Claire de Coverly dared not reveal her Norman identity or her duplicitous mission to the imposing Lord of Hawkswell Castle, for to do so would destroy the joy she found with his children and end the exquisite passion she felt in his arms...!