Her mind rebelled, her heart loved. Rick Corderas, a bold, seemingly uncivilized man with corsair blood in his veins, was quick to pronounce Lyn unequal to the job of coping with his fiery, willful niece, Leoni. It was not a good beginning. But Lyn resolved to try, for the child's sake. It didn't matter a jot what this proud and haughty Spanish American thought of her. She hated him. Then why couldn't she dispel his pagan image from her mind?