Shadows of Splendor

PERILOUS PASSION

Lady Roseanne Mallory paces the bustling Boston docks in dread of the stranger who is to be her husband. Suddenly, her heart is transfixed by the deep and penetrating gaze of a man who speaks her name. But the sensual voice that stirs Rosanne's senses belongs not to the man when she is pledged to marry but to his nephew, Brant Layton.

Brant, too, is dangerously attracted to his uncle's bride. Torn by desire to claim her, he is tormented by the thought of their lovely innocence being sacrificed to this lecherous bondage. When Rosanne begs him to help her escape, he cannot refuse. And as they flee into a mountain wilderness fraught with danger and temptation, passions too long restrained explode in a fiery ecstasy that defies all peril...except the joyous hazard of total surrender to love.