Elizabeth Hastings seethed with fury. Lord Nicholas Ware had the effrontery to call her wanton...then try to seduce her himself! No man, no matter how handsome and powerful, should dare such an outrage. Yet no man had ever touched her as profoundly as did he. Nicholas struggled to maintain control. His title and position put him far above Elizabeth, the maverick American beauty who spurned convention and defied his authority. But he clung to the delicious, forbidden rapture of her kiss and, claiming her as his own, he vowed to unlock the secret of her mysterious heritage...and save her from the elusive evil that threatened her life.
Author
From http://www.barbaradawsonsmith.com/bio... A member of Romance Writers of America since 1981, Barbara Dawson Smith sold her first historical romance two weeks after sending it to a publisher. Her books have won the Golden Heart Award from RWA, and Best Historical Romantic Suspense and Best Regency Historical from Romantic Times. She has been a finalist for the National Readers’ Choice Award, Romance of the Year by Affaire de Coeur magazine, the Golden Quill, and the Booksellers' Best Award. She has also been a five-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award, and realized a lifetime dream in 2002 when she won the award for TEMPT ME TWICE. Barbara also writes romance as Olivia Drake. Barbara lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, two cats, and who knows how many neighbor children running up and down the stairs. When she's not finishing a chapter or teaching a seminar on writing, she enjoys browsing in her collection of over a thousand research books.
