Scoundrel's Caress — Carolyn Chase

THIRTEEN COLONIES
Thirteen novels of sensual romance and breathtaking adventure about the men and women whose pioneering spirit forged this great American nation.

PRISONER OF DESIRE

Lovely Caroline McLeod, penniless and proud, had staked all her hopes on her magnificent plantation, Seven Oaks -- until brash, arrogant Zachary Asheton claimed the property in payment of her late husband's gambling debts. Caroline loathed the man whose raw, masculine power stripped her of all she held dear, seizing her future in his steely grip.

But Zachary's soul-searching kisses soon threatened sweep her away on a tide of passion and still the warning of her troubled heart. Struggling to resist his sense allure, Caroline was torn between her fight for survival and a desperate desire to succumb completely to the rapture of this...