The Dark Side of Paradise — Joanne Creighton

PERDITION IN PARADISE

Lovely young Virginia Evans was saved from certain death when she was rescued from an abandoned trading vessel in the Pacific. But soon she began to fear that death would have been kind compared to the fate that awaited her.

Michael Vardin was the name of her saviour, and from the moment Virginia set eyes on him, she was both repelled and attracted by this diabolically handsome, brutally cynical man. When he bore her like a prize catch from the sea to his isolated island plantation, she realized how helpless she was in his hands, and how impossible escape would be. But that was only her first inkling of the danger in this lonely place where passion flared as fierce and blinding as the tropic sun - and a volcano of human treachery and violence bubbled ready to explode...