Drumbeat of Desire — Diana Summers

A BEAUTIFUL GIRL EXPLORES THE TEMPTATIONS OF WOMANHOOD - AND FINDS THAT LOVE'S ECSTASY DOES NOT ALWAYS BRING HAPPINESS

Raised in a quiet village and convent educated, Aurore de Beausoleil is painfully unprepared for the sophisticated society into which she is suddenly thrust. As she becomes aware of the spell cast by her exotic beauty and unfeigned innocence, her awakening passions are stirred by three men who dream of possessing her: the childhood sweetheart who is now very much a man, her handsome and daring French cousin, and a brash American cowboy. The turbulence of Aurore's unfulfilled yearnings mirrors the violence which shatters her lush island paradise, caught in the throes of civil war. Tormented by the throbbing drumbeat of desire that courses through her veins, she learns quickly that the price of rapture may be too great.

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