Melanie was desperate to get her revenge on Roland Donavan—the man who had caused the death of her grandfather, had driven away her wellborn fiancé, had so brazenly ravished her in a night of madness—so she married him. But at Roland's magnificent plantation on on the fashionable streets of New Orelans, Melanie was tossed into a maze of seething intrigue and dangerous seductions. And try though she might, she was unable to resist the awakening of a sweet ache that grew more incessant with her husband's demanding caress....