Dancing in the Dark — Susan P. Teklits

LOVE SNARED BY HATE

Running from her abusive father, Maria Vandenburgh had nothing to lose by spurning London's high society for a passage to the Americas as nursemaid to Beau Gardiner's motherless son. And Beau had everything to gain--for he planned to avenge Lord Vandenburgh's massacre of his family in Charles Towne by kidnapping Maria Vandenburgh.

But the sweet Savannah wind softened the hearts of the chaste convent girl and the proud leader of the Carolina fur traders, who had become a god to the forest Indians. In the wild paradise of the New World, the captive Maria and her rugged captor eased each other's pain, until grief shared became passion triumphant and held the promise of new life. A promise that was threatened by Beau's secret vengeance, ripening in England, ready to tear their love apart.