No man had ever kissed Susannah this way before. The Marquis de Silva towered over her, his manly strength making her feel as helpless as a magnolia petal caught in the swirling waters of the Mississippi. And as this irresistibly handsome man pressed his lips to her willing mouth, the rush of hot desire was so sure and swift that Susannah forgot she was promised to one another...

Susannah shivered in his embrace. Fate had brought this royal rogue into her life, and now a passion she could no longer deny threatened to carry her away from her beloved South. She feared this seductive stranger, yet craved his burning touch. And as his masculine power reached out to claim her, she was ready to surrender herself to wild raging ecstasy....