Flame of Tournay — Lisa Beaumont

Flame-haired, impetuous Charity Ashton has grown up on Tournay, her family's vast Caribbean plantation, pampered, protected and adored by her parents. Then Tournay is burned to the ground in a slave revolt, Charity's father is killed and the family's fortune is lost. Seventeen-year-old Charity and her mother are forced to flee to America with Paul LaRoche, a family friend. He had hoped to marry Charity for her fortune, though her beauty was an equal enticement. However, now that she is penniless he has less than marriage in mind; she must become his mistress or suffer the fate of a poor relation and work as a governess to his cousin's children. Only one man can save her; Adam Crandall, the handsome, gray-eyed Virginian whom she had met on board the ship to America. Charity falls in love with him despite his insolence, and after a particularly unpleasant incident with Paul, she leaves Virginia with Adam. But after their boat is attacked by Indians on the Ohio River and Adam is believed dead, Paul LaRoche reenters Charity's life, and once again the ruthless man has his own plans for her. Sweeping from the rich island paradise of Sant Dominique to the drawing rooms of colonial Virginia, from the saveage danger of an untamed Kentucky to the lush decadence of New Orleans, Flame of Tournay is lusty 18th-century romance of high passion, treachery and adventure.