The Smuggler's Embrace — Carolyn Chase

SWEET SAVAGE SPLENDORS

A cultured beauty with flowing, copper hair and deep blue eyes, Gretchen North is the most precious prize of the Bay Colony. Promised to a man she does not love, she flees Boston rather than submit to his touch, journeying to the untamed wilds of the western frontier and a small inn she has inherited. There, Gretchen finds herself pitted against the raw power of Tucker London, a profiteer who is determined to see Gretchen's inn fail, even as he seeks to possess her silken body.

Trembling with anger, burning with desire, Gretchen vows to put an end to Tuck's illicit commerce, and ruin the taunting rogue. When she uncovers a plot darker than anything she could have imagined, Gretchen fears the terrible consequences of his rage, but swears to resist the temptations of...THE SMUGGLER'S EMBRACE