The Passionate Pretender — Marianne Montgomery

He held out his arms and she came to him, eagerly, willingly, allowing him to kiss her deeply again and again, until her desire for him rose like a sharp hot spear...

Beautiful Margaret Durham was fleeing disgrace when she came to the Massachusetts colony in the turbulent years leading up to the American Revolution. Letting no one know she had been brutally ravished by an English aristocrat, she posed as a lady of quality and wed wealthy, grasping John Rawlings, who agreed to be father to the child horn of her shame. But Margaret could not deny the force of desire that drew her to her husband's rebel brother, Ben. And neither could resist the flames of forbidden passion that consumed them -- and bound them together in a whirlwind of love and ecstasy....