Angel Flame — Eugenia Riley

Kiss of Fire

At eighteen, poised on the brink of womanhood, Angelique's world was cruelly shattered. She was orphaned by yellow fever, penniless, and forced by her family to enter into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stranger. At their first meeting, Roland Delacroix's stunning good looks fascinated the Cajun beauty. And when he ravished her lips with a sudden, searing kiss, Angelique trembled with fear. She knew he had conquered her pride and that she would be Roland's wife in name, his mistress in reality.

But the stately Delacroix plantation was not the den of iniquity Angelique expected. Now the bridegroom who hungered for her seemed to shun her. Helpless with awakening desire, Angelique had to learn to be a wife as well as a lover and face the secrets and fears haunting her husband ... if she was ever to feel his lips on hers again.