SummaryHis desires couldn't be trusted...
Hal Lindsay is a decorated Union Navy hero and a riverboat
captain who has built an empire around his Missouri River
steamboats. Yet deep inside him lurks the pain of a dark,
vicious past—one that has him determined never to marry
and have children. It's far better to live alone, finding
carnal comfort in the arms of women who will do anything as
long as the price is right—women with nothing at stake,
like the sensual innocent currently masquerading as an
experienced gambler aboard his boat, the Cherokee Belle. For
once, Hal wants more—much more...and that is a very
dangerous thing...
Her presence was sheer temptation...
Rosalind Schuyler is appalled to be unmasked by Hal—and
frightened as well. The prominent New York railroad heiress
is in disguise and on the run to escape marriage to a man
who would kill to gain her fortune. Now it seems she's in
danger of a different kind. For Hal Lindsay is like no man
she's met before. One minute, he's kind as a brother, hiding
her from those searching night and day for her. The next,
he's a pure masculine animal, taking her to his bed and
beyond what she thought were the limits of her desire.
Everything he does, she wants more of, but what she wants
most, she knows he can never give...
Their passion was beyond control...
Now, as the Belle makes its way down a treacherously swollen
Missouri River, picking up friends and enemies along the
way, Rosalind and her River Devil are caught up in a current
of passion, desire, and danger with no way back and no way
out...
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