She didn't know what would become of her if her captor tired of her. But until then, she was a slave to the ecstacies of passion… She was living a quiet life with her aunt in the steamy countryside near New Orleans. Her name was Angeline. She was a red-haired, emerald-eyed beauty. A virgin. Rolfe, the golden-haired, handsome prince of the tiny country of Ruthenia, mistook her for his brother's mistress - a woman who had witnessed his brother's murder. And after Rolfe kidnapped Angeline and took her to his bed - a passionate punishment that proved she'd never been anyone's mistress - Angeline couldn't return to a routine life of respectability.
"You are a gift from the gods," he told her, "and I will keep you as long as the pleasure lasts." And Angeline, awakened to sensuality, was not entirely unwilling to be his captive…