Mystique — Marion Clarke

BLINDING PASSION...

Charlotte Davenport felt a dark foreboding from the moment she arrived at the Stone Garden, her aunt's Virginia plantation. It was the second powerful feeling she'd experienced in a single night. The first had come when a masked stranger offered Charlotte and her younger sister a ride on the last leg of their journey, raised Charlotte's hand to his lips...and set her heart on fire. He was the notorious Frenchman, who defied the South's laws by helping slaves escape. But to Charlotte, he was the first man she ever desired.

... OR A MAGNIFICENT LOVE?

Soon Charlotte would discover The Frenchman's true identity...and the strange secrets of the slaves and slavemasters of the Stone Garden. And soon she would step over the line of convention into the dangerous unknown territory of passion. She and the Frenchman had a common cause, but they also had a mutual enemy in the renegade patrollers of the South. And ahead of them lay no certain fate but peril, no other future but to live, or die, for love...