Englands prisons can make a man bitter. Betrayal can make him merciless. Falsely accused of murder and left to rot in Englands infamous prison system, Ryder Braddock, Viscount Blackwood, is finally proven innocent. He returns to his estate a changed, embittered man with a craving for opium and an unwanted wife. Determined to see this complete stranger pay for her trickeryno matter how beautiful she ishe threatens her with arrest after he enjoys his conjugal rights. Jessies husband has come home. Brutalized by her stepfather into marrying the dangerous convict and opium-eater, she soon discovers he is far from the criminal shed imagined as she helps him through opium withdrawal. And she quickly discovers the only thing truly in danger is her heart. With Jessies help, Ryder frees himself from the drug, only to find it replaced with a new compulsionan insatiable need for his wife. Warning, this title contains the following: graphic language, explicit sex, light spanking, anal play.