In 1891, a well-born Boston beauty, Corinne Barrows's flashing emerald eyesbid men fulfill her any desire. Jarred Burkett hate her father, and inrevenge he seduced and married her as Jarred Burke, to later abandoned her.Humiliated, she sworn to revenge. She has found him on the lush and lovelyisland of Hawaii. And now Corinne will have the revenge she craves: thetotal ruin of the blackguard who brought shame and scandal into her life.But Jared still possesses the power to excite her as no man has everdone--even as his own reckless heart is taken captive in their blisteringwar of wits and will--igniting a fire that could consume them both unlessthey surrender to it with wild abandon in the heat of the tropic night.