Sold by her parents into a marriage she abhors, beautiful 16 year old Savannah St. James craves a life of her own. Instead she is forced to live as the prized possession of the 50 year old Baron do Rio Mar, the richest plantation owner in Brazil - a cruel tyrant who collects women in the same cold-blooded way he collects his priceless objects of art.

Only one man can save her from sexual enslavement: Manco, the dark, mysterious rebel whose love is worth more than all the opulent treasures the baron can offer.

Because of Manco, Savannah risks her life in a daring plan of escape that sweeps her from the splendor of a magnificent palacio to the terrors of the Amazon jungle, from a sinful pleasure palace to a remove Indian village where she begins to hope, despite herself, that she will be rescued at last by the only man she has ever loved.