Once a poor girl of the streets, Eleanora Villars returns home to New Orleans as the rich widow of a titled Spanish nobleman and a heroine of the wars in nineteenth-century Central America
Born for love, she was an emperor's favorite. A tyrant's concubine. And a prisoner of her own brazen desires . . .
Serena Walsh had fled from the Mormon wagon train -- and from the clutches of the fanatic Elder Greer. She had been saved on the desolate prairie by the handsome, cynical Ward Dunbar who wanted her body as his reward. Now Serena was Dunbar's unwilling mistress -- and his prisoner. Now she was despised by Dunbar's beautiful partner, Pearlie, for stealing her man. Now she was desired by Nathan Benedict, the millionaire who wanted her love at any price. And still she was pursued by Elder Greer. Could Serena Walsh stand alone against the primitive passions of a hostile town?
On the day before her wedding to the heir to the Beau Repose estate, Lorna Forrester is unable to resist falling in love with another man