SHE WAS A BACKWOODS BEAUTY... Feisty Reagan Dawes had been brought against her

will from the backwoods of Kentucky to the wilds of

Missouri Territory, where her brutish stepfather

planned to sell her into marriage. She intended to

rebel at all costs until she laid eyes on the Creole

aristocrat whose winning bid would seal her fate.

What woman wouldn t desire the darkly

handsome Jackson Broussard? But could he ever

love a simple country girl like her?

...WITH DREAMS AND DESIRES ALL HER OWN An unrefined orphan was hardly a suitable bride for

someone of Jackson s station. And vet. the ill-bred

beauty stirred the undeniable embers of passion in a

man who prided himself on icy control. Now, as

Reagan transforms before his appreciative eyes from

uncivilized hellion to polished femme fatale,

Jackson is torn between his hunger for her

and his desire to shelter her from the web of

intrigue swirling around him.