INNOCENT TEMPTATION TORMENTED PASSION BLAZING, RECKLESS LOVE.

Her flashing eyes taunted him, her sensuous lips tempted him, and the wild black curls dancing around the dark exotic beauty of her face drove him wild with desire. She was barely more than a girl... until sweet innocent seduction exploded into a moment of blazing passion ... and Patrick O'Reilly made Kitty Rooney, a woman.

But Kitty's love turned to bitterness when she realized that Patrick meant to have her for his mistress--not for his wife--and she fled from the life he could have given her into a ljfe far crueler than the poverty of her childhood.

While a tormented Patrick vowed to find the fiery Irish beauty he could no longer live without, Kitty was thrust from the clutches of a sadistic cad into the captivity of Caribbean slavery. But even when the love of a duke promised her the luxury and position she had always dreamed of, Kitty knew she would never know happiness... except in the arms of the handsome Irishman who had first loved her as a woman.