A fragile English beauty poised on the brink of bottomless desire. Ripe, captivating, innocent Victoria Castledon was too young to know the power of her dark beauty - or the secret of her own voluptuous longings. When aristocratic Charles Stanford swiftly wooed and wed her, society smiled upon the brilliant match. And wrapped in her little-girl dreams, Victoria smiled with them...
Too late, she discovered that it was her husband's brother, the notorious Captain Esterly, who alone could inflame her soul's wildest passion...
Yielding to love's sweet torment, she pursued the reckless, daring captain to fields of war, half a world away.
Sweeping from London to exotic Constantinople to the bloodwashed valley of Balaclava, her dark, scandalous desire blazed across continents, setting brother against brother, fanning higher and higher the flames of searing lust - for a woman neither could totally possess...
A romance surging with savage adventure and pulsing emotions!