Passionate Gamble.. Pale and defiant as she stood beneath the hangman's noose, Lady Kathryn Storm met Pride Ashton's hard, unfathomable gaze. You brought me here, she thought wearily. But if death will release me from the hell of wanting you, I'm glad - and damn the price! Bold, mysterious, shudderingly powerful, the English Lord had awakened Kate's innocent senses to a rapturous, hungry desire she had never known. Then cooly surrender her to the King's justice.