Silver Jasmine Author:Janet Louise Roberts THEY CALLED HER... SILVER JASMINE — Slender as a reed, and as ready as a fawn to flee at a man's touch... yet 17-year-old Tess had mettle too, though it could not prevent her cruel stepfather from gambling away her honor in a card game -- or Morgan Hamilton's forcing her into his marriage bed. — Morgan Hamilton... soldier, sailor, Scotsman, enigma... more ». How Tess longed to love him -- she who could not trust any man! Only on their sultry tropical isle, only at her new plantation home, a land seething with slavery and vengeance, could Tess grow to understand Morgan -- and the ways of her own heart.« less
Adventure and romance set in Caribean islands, of a man and a woman who must learn how to make a marriage at the same time they must learn how to run a sugar cane plantation. Enjoyable.