Forever Paradise — Miranda North

SHE HAD TO ESCAPE HER PAST
Marriage! Exquisite Lydia Collins had had enough of it for a disastrous two months and she swore she'd never wed again. Seeking only some peace from all men, the now-rich widow went abroad to see her late husband's lands in Jamaica... and sailed straight into the arms of a tanned, half-nude sailor who knew nothing of courtesy and manners. First the brute manhandled her, then he publicly ridiculed her, but when he kissed her, Lydia was furious...until the wine of ecstasy washed through her veins and made her unreasonably yearn for more rude caresses at the hands of the handsome ruffian!

HE HAD TO PURSUE HIS FORTUNE
Coal-haired Blake Spencer could tell right away that shapely, fashionably dressed Lydia Collins was a troublemaker. Even though he'd been her husband's hardworking overseer and had earned the Collins' plantation home, Blake could detect the proprietary gleam in the greedy wench's eye. Determined to make her abandon her claim, the unabashed male calculated first he'd seduce her, then humiliate her. But Blake never figured he'd really desire the interfering British beauty, or that he'd crave her creamy flesh, and yearn to make her the fiery, tempestuous mistress of their own private