Forbidden Love — Donna Hunt

Bella is tricked into marriage, meets Adam Tarrant.

When Bella is just seventeen she is tricked into marriage with a man she has only met once. Ordered to follow Edward to his plantation home in the New World, Bella endures a long, restless sea voyage to Virginia. On board is Adam Tarrant, and Bella realises that this is the man she will love for the rest of her life. Despairingly, she tries to deny the dangerous love, for sheknows that a husband waits for her who's good looks hide a cruel, sadistic nature - and that he will never let her go.