Pride and Passion — Fern Michaels

INNOCENCE BETRAYED

Marilyn Bannon ventures into the wilds of the lush Amazon to claim her father's rubber plantation. While voyaging up the treacherous river she meets and is entranced by the exotic, charming, enigmatic Sebastian Rivera. As excitement with her new life mounts, pride and searing passions surround her.

Living in a society drunk with opulence and leisure, Marilyn is exposed to a seething hotbed of vile abuse and inhuman bond-age, and finds herself at the mercy of the lascivious Baron who controls the land and everyone on it.

The steaming, hot, verdant jungle encroaches, carrying yellow fever and the threat of slave revolt. Defenseless and alone, Marilyn struggles to save the innocent in a fruitless battle over disease, brutality and misery. Desperately she tries to preserve her love in the jungle where life is cheap and death has no meaning...