Innocent templation tormented passion blazing, reckless love. Her flashingeyes taunted him, her sensuous lips tempted him, and the wild black curlsdancing around the dark exotic beauty of her face drove him wild withdesire. She was barely more than a girl... until sweet innocent seductionexploded into a moment of blazing passion ... and Patrick O'Reilly madeKitty Rooney, a woman. But Kitty's love turned to bitterness when sherealized that Patrick meant to have her for his mistress--not for hiswife--and she fled from the life he could have given her into a life farcrueler than the poverty of her childhood. While a tormented Patrick vowedto find the fiery Irish beauty he could no longer live without, Kitty wasthrust from the clutches of a sadistic cad into the captivity of Caribbeanslavery. But even when the love of a duke promised her the luxury andposition she had always dreamed of, Kitty knew she would never knowhappiness... except in the arms of the handsome Irishman who had first lovedher as a woman.