A Pirate's Love

Nothing bound her spirit -- but one man knew the whispered words to make her his.

SUN-BLAZED BEACHES

With languid tropic, breezes caressing her breathtakingly beautiful face, Bettina Verlaine stood before the mast, sailing westward to fulfill a promise her heart never made - marriage to a Count her eyes had never beheld.

Then in a moment of swashbuckling courgae, the pirate Tristan Matisse swept her away and the spell of his passion was cast over her heart forever.

But many days - and fiery nights - must pass before their love could flower into that fragile blossom a woman gives to only one man.