Aristocratic Rafael Navarro spies the beautiful Catherine Mayfield at one of New Orleans' most exotic quadroon balls and mistakes her for a woman who generously dispenses her favors. He realizes too late that he has hopelessly compromised a lady of the haute monde. With no choice but to accept his proposal, the enraged Catherine becomes his bride. Rafael whisks her away to his bayou home, a looming, dark mansion of secrets and forbidden passions. Here, whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate their way into her life -- while she weakens to her growing desire for a man whose caress ruthlesly tempts her with the pleasures of love.
But the past may keep her from claiming the heart of this enigmatic man, who has indelibly and passionately claimed her body and her soul....
But the past may keep her from claiming the heart of this enigmatic man, who has indelibly and passionately claimed her body and her soul....
Aristocratic Rafael Navarro spies the beautiful Catherine Mayfield at one of New Orleans' most exotic quadroon balls and mistakes her for a woman who generously dispenses her favors. He realizes too late that he has hopelessly compromised a lady of the haute monde. With no choice but to accept his proposal, the enraged Catherine becomes his bride. Rafael whisks her away to his bayou home, a looming, dark mansion of secrets and forbidden passions. Here, whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate their way into her life -- while she weakens to her growing desire for a man whose caress ruthlesly tempts her with the pleasures of love.But the past may keep her from claiming the heart of this enigmatic man, who has indelibly and passionately claimed her body and her soul....
In a locked room ina notorious New Orleans mansion Catherine first learned what it was to fight against the power of a man's aroused desires and her own awakened hungers-and to lose all pride, all pretense, all control
In a great plantation house Catherine was installed to be mistress of all she surveyed, and to be slave to one man's iron will and fierce possessisveness
On a riverboat on the raging Mmississippi Catherine faced a captor whose brutal bulk and animal-like lusst made a mockery of her claims to respect as an aristocrat and virture as a lady
In a world where force and violence ruled supreme Catherine was a woman whose passions were too strong and defenses too frail to offer her safety from --Love's wild desisre
In a great plantation house Catherine was installed to be mistress of all she surveyed, and to be slave to one man's iron will and fierce possessisveness
On a riverboat on the raging Mmississippi Catherine faced a captor whose brutal bulk and animal-like lusst made a mockery of her claims to respect as an aristocrat and virture as a lady
In a world where force and violence ruled supreme Catherine was a woman whose passions were too strong and defenses too frail to offer her safety from --Love's wild desisre
