Lost Ecstasy — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Dangerous Passion

Young Kay bowling had everything a girl could want-beauty, wealth, position, a doting family and a swarm of suitors. Yet a restless longing consumed her, as it the luxurious mansion in which she lived were little better than a prison cell.

Only one man could satisfy her, a handsome, reckless man who used women and tossed them aside, a man against whom everyone warned her, a man she had to have . . . no matter what the terrible price . . . .

Echoes of a dangerous love

“Why have you come back?”

It was dark, but Tom glanced around to make sure no one had seen them. “Just to look at you. I don't want to make any trouble.”

Suddenly he gazed at her with a strange, smoldering intensity. “Look, you may hear things about me. You will…I'm human. But this goes, now and forever…there's only you. Do you understand? Only you…”