As Mardi Gras flared in the glittering streets of New Orleans, ecstasy blazed in a small stark room...

To prevent the duel she was sure would kill her sister's fiance, Anya Hamilton took as her prisoner the magnificently handsome Creole Ravel Duralde.

But in a small, stark room on her lush Louisiana plantation, it was Anya who became Ravel's Prisoner Of Desire...

...for in that little room, Ravel awakened all of Anya's longings - and satisfied them mightily. The protests running through her mind were no match for the heat coursing through her veins, and Anya returned again and again to Ravel's chamber to love and be loved, to experience pleasures she'd never dreamed possible.

But outside their locked oasis, Anya and Ravel faced danger. Was someone trying to destroy them? Why?

As Anya struggled to control her raging emotions, and Ravel strove to win her love, they both faced the challenge of staying alive to enjoy again the paradise in each other's arms...