Anyone who saw researcher Pamela Merrill and plantation owner Miguel Rivero together could tell that they were right for each other--right as only a handful of lovers ever are. Yet while the tropical sun blazed down on the idyllic Canary Islands, warming Pamela's heart and igniting Miguel's passion, a shadow hung over their happiness.

For Miguel wasn't free. And unless he could unravel the dark mystery in his past, Pamela, too, would remain a prisoner, tied by bonds of love to a a man who might never be hers.