The Fabulous black pearl necklace was blood-warm around beautiful Carolyn Stuart-Brice's throat, but icy fear filled her heart as she stood before the altar with the man she knew only as Jack Cade. This handsome, iron-willed stranger ahd swept her off her feet, brushed aside her protests, and compelled her to say yes to his startling marriage proposal. Already outside the church stood the horses that would take bride and groom to the vast Cade estate, so far away from all Carolyn knew and trusted. Already she felt herself in the power of the bridegroom whose lips pressed hungrily down on hers to seal their vows. The sacred ceremony of wedlock was ending. her honeymmon in hell was about to begin....