Silken Tiger — Cynthia Leigh

Merial Ashland… She fled India's wrath years ago, taking with her only memories of the mystical land where she was raised. Now the genteel English beauty had returned to follow an uncertain destiny -- where she would fall prisoner to a fiercely dangerous man.

Prince Rayn… The legendary "tiger" warrior had made the English his sworn enemies. Only Meri, his beautiful captive, could pierce the roughened hatred of his fiery heart, and spark a hungry desire. In Rayn's golden eyes, Meri saw the exotic mysteries of a dark paradise long forgotten. And in the captivity of his strong embrace, she unearthed a tender passion that would soon blaze into a fiery ecstasy -- and a love that she would never surrender...