Fortune's Lady

"I want you, Marianne, I want you so much," he said. And suddenly pleasure and pain, fear and anticipation all blended together for her. "Yes!" she cried out joyously. "Oh, Nick, yes...!"

The untamed nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest offered beautiful Marianne Blakemore escape from the man and the menace that threatened her life and happiness back east.

But when an accident brought her, unconscious, into the mansion of handsome lumber baron Nicholas Fortune, she feared a different kind of danger--that of his desire, and hers. Nicholas believed that she was the mail-order bride he had been awaiting, and Marianne dared live a lie rather than leave him. But passion soon burned away all barriers between them...and in each other's arms they learned that even in a world of dark secrets, love told the flame-bright truth....