But when she is carried off by pirates Ruark risks his life to save her.
Once home, Shanna is tormented by Ruark's playful taunts - and his threat to collect "The night of love" she had promised him in prison.
But unknown to Shanna, her husband has escaped the gallows and under another name is among the bondsmen purchased by her father's agent. Instead, she contrives to marry Ruark Beauchamp, condemned to die for the supposed murder of a barmaid.Ĭertain her concocted story of a romantic elopement and marriage, followed by Ruark's accidental death, will satisfy her father, Shanna embarks for home - the lush, intrigue-filled Caribean island of Los Camellos. The only child of an 18th century sugar baron, lovely Shanna Trahern is given a year to find a suitable husband in London or to be married off to a dull planter. A woman with surging desires of the spirit, the flesh, and the heart.
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