Passion's Secret — Doris Lemcke

SHE'D NEVER GIVE UP

Georgia born-and-bred Camilla Langesford was outraged when she learned that her father had struck a deal to save their ailing plantation ... with a Yankee carpetbagger of all people! She hadn't spent the last six years working herself to the bone to let some arrogant Northerner come in and take over her family home ... lock, stock and barrel. But Patrick Grady was unlike any man the sheltered southern lady had ever known. His smoky gray eyes stirred desire even as his strong arms reached out to enfold her in his strong embrace. And soon Camilla found herself venturing out to a hot spring grotto for a second tryst with the seductive scoundrel who'd stroked the fires awakening passion with just one soul-searing kiss!

HE'D MAKE HER GIVE IN

Grady had struggled long and hard to escape the stigma of his shameful past. Becoming partners with an impoverished plantation owner would give him the legitimacy he needed and maybe even yield some unexpected dividends ... like the chest-nut-haired belle whose smoldering emerald eyes beckoned and bewitched him. But years of being a Pinkerton agent had taught him that people were seldom what they seemed, and in spite of her uppity airs, Grady knew that Camilla was an innocent in the ways of passion. In his loving arms, she'd soon relinquish the reins of power as she surrendered to him a in a riptide of fiery rapture that would bind them forever ... heart and soul! PASSION'S SECRET